Christer Edwards schrieb:
I've been studying python now for a few weeks and I've recently come
into list comprehensions. Some of the examples that I've found make
sense, and I find them readable and concise. In particular I'm
referring to the python docs on the topic
(http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions).
Those make sense to me. The way I understand them is:
do something to x for each x in list, with an optional qualifier.
On the other hand I've seen a few examples that look similar, but
there is no action done to the first x, which confuses me. An example:
print sum(x for x in xrange(1,1000) if x%3==0 or x%5==0)
In this case is sum() acting as the "action" on the first x?
No.
>>> (x for x in xrange(1,100) if x%3==0 or x%5==0)
<generator object <genexpr> at 0x011C1990>
Is a generator expression. If you want to see what it generates, create
e.g. a tuple
>>> tuple(x for x in xrange(1,100) if x%3==0 or x%5==0)
(3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40,
42, 45, 48, 50, 51, 54, 55, 57, 60, 63, 65, 66, 69, 70, 72, 75, 78, 80,
81, 84, 85, 87, 90, 93, 95, 96, 99)
So you see that the generator selects those integers that are divisible
by 3 or 5
>>> sum(x for x in xrange(1,100) if x%3==0 or x%5==0)
2318
This calculates the some of those.
There are quite a couple of functions in Python that accept generator
expressions
as arguments
Regards,
Gregor
Can
anyone shed some light on what it is I'm not quite grasping between
the two?
Christer
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