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Remove empty strings from a list of strings
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Problem
I want to remove all empty strings from a list of strings in python.
My idea looks like this:
Is there any more pythonic way to do this?
My idea looks like this:
while '' in str_list:
str_list.remove('')Is there any more pythonic way to do this?
Solution
I would use
Python 3 returns an iterator from
filter:str_list = filter(None, str_list)
str_list = filter(bool, str_list)
str_list = filter(len, str_list)
str_list = filter(lambda item: item, str_list)Python 3 returns an iterator from
filter, so should be wrapped in a call to list()str_list = list(filter(None, str_list))Code Snippets
str_list = filter(None, str_list)
str_list = filter(bool, str_list)
str_list = filter(len, str_list)
str_list = filter(lambda item: item, str_list)str_list = list(filter(None, str_list))Context
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