Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 6:26:01 PM UTC+12, Paul Rudin wrote: >> sohcahtoa82 writes: >>> squared_plus_one_list = map(lambda x: x**2 + 1, some_list) >> >> I realise that this is about understanding lambda, but it's worth noting >> in passing that we tend to write this sort of thing as: >> >> squared_plus_one_list = [x**2 + 1 for x in some_list] > > The difference being that the “map” function takes an iterable and returns an > iterator.
Ah well - that depends the python version. Since the OP used a name including the substring 'list' I assumed python 2. > Why could this difference be important? The main thing is to understand the difference, and then it's possible to reason about whether it matters in a given context. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
