Question

I want to join a list with a conditional statement such as:

str = "\n".join["a" if some_var is True, "b", "c", "d" if other_var==1, "e"]

Each element has a different conditional clause (if at all) so a normal list comprehension is not suitable in this case.

The solution I thought of is:

lst = ["a" if some_var is True else None, "b", "c", "d" if other_var==1 else None, "e"]
str = "\n".join[item for item in lst if item is not None]

If there a more elegant pythonic solution?

Thanks,

Meir

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More explanation:
In the above example, if some_var equals to True and other_var equals to 1 I would like to get the following string:

a
b
c
d
e

If some_var is False and other_var equals to 1 I would like to get the following string:

b
c
d
e

If some_var is True and other_var is not equals to 1 I would like to get the following string:

a
b
c
e

Answer 1

I think this is what you want:

lst=[]
if some_var == True:
    lst.append('a')
lst.append('b')
lst.append('c')
if other_var == 1:
    lst.append('d')
lst.append('e')