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6/15/2019 06-List Comprehensions

List Comprehensions
In addition to sequence operations and list methods, Python includes a more advanced operation
called a list comprehension.

List comprehensions allow us to build out lists using a different notation. You can think of it as
essentially a one line for loop built inside of brackets. For a simple example:

Example 1
In [1]: # Grab every letter in string
lst = [x for x in 'word']

In [2]: # Check
lst

Out[2]: ['w', 'o', 'r', 'd']

This is the basic idea of a list comprehension. If you're familiar with mathematical notation this
format should feel familiar for example: x^2 : x in { 0,1,2...10 }

Let's see a few more examples of list comprehensions in Python:

Example 2
In [3]: # Square numbers in range and turn into list
lst = [x**2 for x in range(0,11)]

In [4]: lst

Out[4]: [0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]

Example 3
Let's see how to add in if statements:

In [5]: # Check for even numbers in a range


lst = [x for x in range(11) if x % 2 == 0]

In [6]: lst

Out[6]: [0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10]

Example 4

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Can also do more complicated arithmetic:

In [7]: # Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit


celsius = [0,10,20.1,34.5]

fahrenheit = [((9/5)*temp + 32) for temp in celsius ]

fahrenheit

Out[7]: [32.0, 50.0, 68.18, 94.1]

Example 5
We can also perform nested list comprehensions, for example:

In [8]: lst = [ x**2 for x in [x**2 for x in range(11)]]


lst

Out[8]: [0, 1, 16, 81, 256, 625, 1296, 2401, 4096, 6561, 10000]

Later on in the course we will learn about generator comprehensions. After this lecture you should
feel comfortable reading and writing basic list comprehensions.

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