Thanks to all those who responded. It has all helped immensely. :-)
I didn't know about list comprehensions before I started.
very warm regards to all.
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On 30/04/2006 12:22 AM, Max Erickson wrote:
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>> But this gives me "IndexError: list out of range
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> You are making the list shorter as you are iterating. By the time your
> index is at the end of the original list, it isn't that long any
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You are making the list shorter as you are iterating. By the time your
index is at the end of the original list, it isn't that long any more.
Creating a new list and appending the elements you
Ooops!
Looking at your example a bit closer, change the 'and' in the list
comprehension I posted to 'or', and it should do what you want.
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This looks like a job for list comprehensions:
>>> returned_lines= ['Name: John, Value: 12','We don't want this one.','Name:
>>> Eric, Value: 24']
>>> [x for x in returned_lines if ('Name' in x and 'Value' in x)]
['Name: John, Value: 12', 'Name: Eric, Value: 24']
List comprehensions are great. I
This is python 2.4.3 on WinXP under PythonWin.
I have a config file with many blank lines and many other lines that I
don't need.
read the file in, splitlines to make a list, then run a loop that
looks like this:
config_file = open("lines.txt", "rb")
returned_lines = config_file.read().splitl
