On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Bo Morris <crushe...@gmail.com> wrote: > i have the following simple function that iterates over the list. It passes > the list item into the function and adds the numbers. What would be the > equivalent way of writing the "map" portion with list comprehension? My code > is as follows: > > def add(number): > print 1 + int(number) > > > > x = ['2', '4', '6', '8', '10', '12'] > > map(add, x)
Think of a list comprehension as: [ dosomething(item) for item in alist] And, comparing it with your map implementation, here is what you get: >>> [1+int(item) for item in x] [3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13] Here, dosomething(item) corresponds to 1+int(item). Hope that helps. -Amit. -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
