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🐍 Day 52 of #100DaysOfCode in Python: Mastering Python Comprehensions
Welcome to Day 52! Today, we’ll explore one of Python’s most elegant features: comprehensions. Comprehensions provide a concise and readable way to create lists, dictionaries, and sets. They are a powerful tool for data manipulation and can significantly simplify your Python code.
1. Understanding Comprehensions
Comprehensions in Python are a way of constructing a new sequence (such as a list, set, or dictionary) based on existing sequences in a clear and concise manner. They are often more readable and efficient than using loops or map() functions.
2. List Comprehensions
List comprehensions provide a concise way to create lists. They consist of brackets containing an expression followed by a for
clause, and optionally, one or more if
clauses.
# Creating a list of squares using list comprehension
squares = [x**2 for x in range(10)]
3. Conditional List Comprehensions
You can add conditional logic to list comprehensions to filter the items in the resulting list.
# List of even squares
even_squares = [x**2 for x in range(10) if x % 2 == 0]