受到@gnibbler伟大(但简洁!)回答的启发，我们可以应用该方法映射到多个分区:

from collections import defaultdict

def splitter(l, mapper):
    """Split an iterable into multiple partitions generated by a callable mapper."""

    results = defaultdict(list)

    for x in l:
        results[mapper(x)] += [x]

    return results

然后可以使用splitter，如下所示:

>>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 3]
>>> split = splitter(l, lambda x: x % 2 == 0)  # partition l into odds and evens
>>> split.items()
>>> [(False, [1, 3, 3, 5, 3, 3]), (True, [2, 4, 2, 4, 6, 4, 2])]

这适用于有更复杂映射的两个以上分区(也适用于迭代器):

>>> import math
>>> l = xrange(1, 23)
>>> split = splitter(l, lambda x: int(math.log10(x) * 5))
>>> split.items()
[(0, [1]),
 (1, [2]),
 (2, [3]),
 (3, [4, 5, 6]),
 (4, [7, 8, 9]),
 (5, [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]),
 (6, [16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22])]

或者用字典来映射:

>>> map = {'A': 1, 'X': 2, 'B': 3, 'Y': 1, 'C': 2, 'Z': 3}
>>> l = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'C', 'X', 'Y', 'Z', 'A', 'Z']
>>> split = splitter(l, map.get)
>>> split.items()
(1, ['A', 'Y', 'A']), (2, ['C', 'C', 'X']), (3, ['B', 'Z', 'Z'])]

如果你不介意使用一个外部库，有两个我知道本机实现这个操作:

>>> files = [ ('file1.jpg', 33, '.jpg'), ('file2.avi', 999, '.avi')]
>>> IMAGE_TYPES = ('.jpg','.jpeg','.gif','.bmp','.png')

iteration_utilities.partition: >>> from iteration_utilities import partition >>> notimages, images = partition(files, lambda x: x[2].lower() in IMAGE_TYPES) >>> notimages [('file2.avi', 999, '.avi')] >>> images [('file1.jpg', 33, '.jpg')] more_itertools.partition >>> from more_itertools import partition >>> notimages, images = partition(lambda x: x[2].lower() in IMAGE_TYPES, files) >>> list(notimages) # returns a generator so you need to explicitly convert to list. [('file2.avi', 999, '.avi')] >>> list(images) [('file1.jpg', 33, '.jpg')]

第一步(pre-OP-edit):使用集合:

mylist = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
goodvals = [1,3,7,8,9]

myset = set(mylist)
goodset = set(goodvals)

print list(myset.intersection(goodset))  # [1, 3, 7]
print list(myset.difference(goodset))    # [2, 4, 5, 6]

这对可读性(IMHO)和性能都有好处。

第二步(post-OP-edit):

创建一个好的扩展列表:

IMAGE_TYPES = set(['.jpg','.jpeg','.gif','.bmp','.png'])

这将提高性能。否则，你现在的情况在我看来还不错。

如果你想用FP风格:

good, bad = [ sum(x, []) for x in zip(*(([y], []) if y in goodvals else ([], [y])
                                        for y in mylist)) ]

不是最易读的解决方案，但至少只遍历mylist一次。

就我个人而言，我喜欢你引用的版本，假设你已经有了一个好的列表。如果没有，就像这样:

good = filter(lambda x: is_good(x), mylist)
bad = filter(lambda x: not is_good(x), mylist)

当然，这真的非常类似于使用列表理解，就像你最初做的，但用一个函数而不是一个查找:

good = [x for x in mylist if is_good(x)]
bad  = [x for x in mylist if not is_good(x)]

总的来说，我发现列表推导式的美学非常令人满意。当然，如果您实际上不需要保留顺序，也不需要重复，那么在集合上使用交集和差分方法也会很好。

例如，按偶数和奇数拆分列表

arr = range(20)
even, odd = reduce(lambda res, next: res[next % 2].append(next) or res, arr, ([], []))

或者概括地说:

def split(predicate, iterable):
    return reduce(lambda res, e: res[predicate(e)].append(e) or res, iterable, ([], []))

优点:

最短路径 Predicate对每个元素只应用一次

缺点

需要函数式编程范例的知识