On or about 2009 Sep 5, at 10:45 AM, Martin A. Brown indited:
Have you discovered the map() builtin yet?

I would imagine that others on this list will have some even more
elegant and efficient solutions for you, but here's a possibility:

 def filt_seq( thing ):
   if thing == 38:
     thing = thing - 4
   elif thing == 40:
     thing = thing - 1
   return thing

 l = [ 1, 17, 12, 38, 4, 40, 17, 19 ]
 l = map( filt_seq, l )

Good luck,


I must have missed a message or two, because I don't understand why math is being done on constants like that.
Given my misunderstanding, I'd go with:

my_map = { 38: 34, 40: 39 }

def filter_item(item):
    return my_map.get(item, item)

l = [ ... ]
l = map(filter_item, l)


-Doug

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