How to explicitly choose elements from a list

Question

my_list = ["zero", "wow", "peach", 3, 4, "nice", "pickle"]

I want to print "wow", "nice", "peach"

So:

my_list[1]
my_list[5]
my_list[2]

How can I do this in one line, or at-least quicker than the above?

Answer 1

You can use a list comprehension to return a list of values:

[my_list[i] for i in [1, 5, 2]]

Or to print one by one:

for i in [1, 5, 2]:
    print(my_list[i])

or as a 1-liner using the argument unpacking (*) operator to "flatten" a generator:

print(*(my_list[i] for i in [1, 5, 2]), sep='\n')