if else in a list comprehension [duplicate]

Answer 1

I just had a similar problem, and found this question and the answers really useful. Here's the part I was confused about. I'm writing it explicitly because no one actually stated it simply in English:

The iteration goes at the end.

Normally, a loop goes

for this many times:
    if conditional: 
        do this thing
    else:
        do something else  

Everyone states the list comprehension part simply as the first answer did,

[ expression for item in list if conditional ] 

but that's actually not what you do in this case. (I was trying to do it that way)

In this case, it's more like this:

[ expression if conditional else other thing for this many times ]