On 07/30/2012 01:31 PM, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:35:38PM +0200, Philipp Hagemeister wrote: >> import subprocess >> [ l.partition(' ')[0] # or l[:7], if you want to copy it verbatim >> for l in subprocess.check_output(['lspci']).splitlines() >> if 'Q' in l and isp_str1 in l and isp_str2 in l >> ] > > Ouch. A list comprehension spanning more than one line is bad code > pretty much every time.
I didn't want to introduce a separate function, but as requested, here's the function version: def pciIds(searchWords=['Q', isp_str1, isp_str2]): for l in subprocess.check_output(['lspci']).splitlines(): if all(sw in l for sw in searchWords): yield l.partition(' ')[0] You could also separate the processing, like this: lines = subprocess.check_output(['lspci']).splitlines() lines = [l for l in lines if 'Q' in l and isp_str1 in l and isp_str2 in l] # Or: lines = filter(lambda l: 'Q' in l and isp_str1 in l and isp_str2 in l, lines) [l.partition(' ')[0] for l in lines] # Or: map(lambda l: l.partition(' ')[0], lines) But personally, I have no problem with three-line list comprehensions. Can you elaborate why the list comprehension version is bad code? Or more to the point, how would *you* write it? - Philipp
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