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Re:Linqit – forget about python lists by geoalchimista on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:00AM (#17642809)
For the example

    teenagers = people.where(lambda p: 20 >= p.age >= 13)
I prefer the good ol' Pythonic way

    teenagers = filter(lambda p: 13 <= p.age <= 20, people)
because I know how filter behaves, but am I certain that `where` gives me the elements not their indices (cf. `numpy.where`)?

In another example

    ages = people.age
The Pythonic way can be

    ages = [p.age for p in people]
Despite having more characters to type, list comprehension is a well-known idiom and I bet many Python programmers would be able to write it down in a second or two.

And how would `old_people.last()` be any clearer than `old_people[-1]`? At least from these examples, I'm not convinced it makes a strong case to switch to the .NET Lists.

Re:Linqit – forget about python lists by lou1306 on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:14AM (#17644964)
Python also has

    [p for p in people if 20 >= p.age >= 13]
which someone (I, for one) might find more readable than both the proposed `where` method and the `filter` builtin