Inline Conditionals?

[Alex Martelli]

Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote:
   ...
> When using list comprehension not having a ternary operator can be
> a PITA. It is of course possible I miss something but how am I
> supposed to do the following:
> 
>    [ x.property ? foo(x) : bar(x) for x in Somelist ]

If you HAVE to use an LC by doctor's order, the above effect might be
obtained by coding something like:

[  (bar,foo)[bool(x.property)](x) for x in Somelist ]

If your physician should relent and let you code normal Python, though,

aux = []
for x in Somelist:
    if x.property:
        aux.append(foo(x))
    else
        aux.append(foo(x))

would be vastly more readable; "sparse is better than dense" and any LC
is far too dense to be Pythonic here.


Alex