Hi there, I am back with another python concept; list comprehension.
A list is a collection of related data e.g. a collection of my favorite movies or books. Lists in python can contain numbers, strings, lists etc. In python you can create lists like so:
my_movies = ['Gone Girl’, ‘The Current War’, ‘Crazy Rich Asians'] #if you are creating a list of a number of elements from input given my_movies = [] #declare an empty list for movie in range (3): #loop through 3 elements movie = input () #accept input from the user my_movies.append(movie ) #add that input to your list print(my_movies) #display your complete list A list comprehension is a simple way of creating lists in one line instead of writing many lines of code. One thing I noticed is when using list comprehensions most of the time ranges are involved:
#loops through numbers starting from 1 and stopping at 11(not inclusive) first_ten_numbers = [n for n in range (1,11)] print(first_ten_numbers) ''' Output: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] ''' One can also use ‘if- statements’ in list comprehensions to check a certain condition:
#loops through numbers starting from 1 and stopping at 11(not inclusive) and display only even numbers first_ten_even_numbers = [n for n in range (1,11) if n%2 == 0] print(first_ten_even_numbers) ''' Output: [2,4,6,8,10] ''' It is also possible to make nested lists:
#loops through numbers starting from 1 and stopping at 4(not inclusive) multi_list = [[x, y] for x in range (1,4) for y in range (1,4)] print(multi_list) ''' Output: [[1, 1], [1, 2], [1, 3], [2, 1], [2, 2], [2, 3], [3, 1], [3, 2], [3, 3]] ''' List comprehensions can be very helpful when you need to create simple lists and it saves you a couple lines of code so it’s worth noting.
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