if/else in a list comprehension

Question

How can I do the following in Python?

row = [unicode(x.strip()) for x in row if x is not None else \'\']

Essentially:

1. replace

Answer 1

You can combine conditional logic in a comprehension:

 ps = PorterStemmer()
 stop_words_english = stopwords.words('english')
 best = sorted(word_scores.items(), key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)[:10000]
 bestwords = set([w for w, s in best])


 def best_word_feats(words):
   return dict([(word, True) for word in words if word in bestwords])

 # with stemmer
 def best_word_feats_stem(words):
   return dict([(ps.stem(word), True) for word in words if word in bestwords])

 # with stemmer and not stopwords
 def best_word_feats_stem_stop(words):
   return dict([(ps.stem(word), True) for word in words if word in bestwords and word not in stop_words_english])