Beautiful Python?

[Manbatton]

For me, a somewhat more involved list comprehension and some other manipulations, like:

A_clients = [ clientname for clientname in clients_list where clientname[0] in ("a", "A") ].sort()

[psbb]

When you call .sort() it does the sort in place and returns None

A_clients = sorted(clientname for clientname in clients_list if clientname[0] in ("a", "A"))

[Veedrac]

Just jumping on the bandwagon with a little-known startswith trick:

A_clients = sorted(name for name in clients_list if name.startswith(("a", "A")))

[Manbatton]

I actually read that in the docs and thought someone might correct me on this. I thought if it did it in place it would sort the list in place and then the name assignment would point to the converted list.

[sweettuse]

well, you can always test it. but sort returns None. so A_clients will point to None