Python list comprehension - want to avoid repeated evaluation

Question

I have a list comprehension which approximates to:

[f(x) for x in l if f(x)]

Where l is a list and f(x) is an expensive function which retu

Answer 1

Use map() !!

comp = [x for x in map(f, l) if x]

f is the function f(X), l is the list

map() will return the result of f(x) for each x in the list.