compress(data, selectors)
iterator drops data based on selectors
>>> from itertools import * >>> x = compress([1,4,6,2,34,9],[True,False,True,True,True,False]) >>> for i in x: >>> print(i)
1 6 2 34The data is a list, and the selector is a list with the same length. For each indice i of the lists, if selector[i] is False, then drop data[i]. Selector elements can be expressed as True and False, or 1 and 0 or other boolean equivalents.