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List comprehensions in Python

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List comprehensions in Python

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- [Instructor] Once you've gotten the hang of working with lists using the math and filter functions, you may be interested to discover that Python provides another way to do pretty much the same thing and that's by using something called list comprehensions. Put simply, list comprehensions are a nice readable way to both filter and transform the elements in a list. I usually think of them as a sort of combination of the three concepts we learned previously: map, filter and lambdas. So what do list comprehensions look like and how can we use them? Well, to answer this question, let's imagine, that as in the previous videos, we have a list of numbers that we want to transform in some way, whether it's by changing it to the elements by doubling them or by getting some subset of the elements, such as getting all the even numbers. So here's the basic syntax of using list comprehensions to do this. When we want to…

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