Re: "For" loop and list comprehension similarity

s.lipnevich@gmail.com writes:

> On more than one occasion, I found myself wanting to use a "conditional
> loop" like this (with "Invalid syntax" error, of course):
>
> for i in c if <test>:
> print i*2
>
> ...because it's similar to the list comprehension construct:
>
> [i*2 for i in c if <test>]

Why not combine the two:

    for i in [j for j in c if <test>]:
        print i*2

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