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List Comprehensions


List Comprehensions is a very powerful tool, which creates a new list based on another list, in a single, readable line.

For example, let's say we need to create a list of integers which specify the length of each word in a certain sentence, but only if the word is not the word "the".

sentence = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
words = sentence.split()
word_lengths = []
for word in words:
      if word != "the":
          word_lengths.append(len(word))
print(words)
print(word_lengths)

Using a list comprehension, we could simplify this process to this notation:

sentence = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
words = sentence.split()
word_lengths = [len(word) for word in words if word != "the"]
print(words)
print(word_lengths)

Exercise

Using a list comprehension, create a new list called "newlist" out of the list "numbers", which contains only the positive numbers from the list, as integers.

numbers = [34.6, -203.4, 44.9, 68.3, -12.2, 44.6, 12.7] newlist = [] print(newlist) numbers = [34.6, -203.4, 44.9, 68.3, -12.2, 44.6, 12.7] newlist = [int(x) for x in numbers if x > 0] print(newlist) test_output_contains("[34, 44, 68, 44, 12]") success_msg("Very nice!")

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