To the best of my understanding, this answers your question:
iterable
A container object capable of returning its members one at a
time. Examples of iterables include all sequence types (such as
list, str, and tuple) and some non-sequence types like dict and
file and objects of any classes you define with an __iter__()
or __getitem__() method. Iterables can be used in a for loop
and in many other places where a sequence is needed (zip(),
map(), ...). When an iterable object is passed as an argument
to the builtin function iter(), it returns an iterator for the
object. This iterator is good for one pass over the set of
values. When using iterables, it is usually not necessary to
call iter() or deal with iterator objects yourself. The for
statement does that automatically for you, creating a temporary
unnamed variable to hold the iterator for the duration of the
loop. See also iterator, sequence, and generator.
bullockbefriending bard wrote:
Given:
class Z(object):
various defs, etc.
class ZList(list):
various defs, etc.
i would like to be able to replace
z_list = ZList()
for y in list_of_objects_of_class_Y:
z_list.append(y)
with something like this:
z_list = [Z(y.var1, y.var2,..) for y in list_of_objects_of_class_Y]
Of course this just gives me a plain list and no access to the
methodsof z_list. I could, of course go and write a static method in
ZList which takes a plain list of Z objects and returns a ZList.
Anyway, my question is whether or not this can be done more elegantly
via list comprehension?
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