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What is List Comprehension
Sulochana Kamshetty
8 months ago
List Comprehension
List
comprehensions are used for creating new lists from other iterables.
The simplicity of list
comprehension is to process of creating list of list, or list out of list .
List Comprehensions
A list comprehension consists of the following
parts:
- An Input Sequence.
- A Variable representing members of the input sequence.
- An Optional Predicate expression.
- An Output Expression producing elements of the output list from members of the Input Sequence that satisfy the predicate.
As list comprehension it executes the output in the
form of list, provided brackets in the form of list of items in it..
We can perform a lot of different types of functions
using list comprehension those are as follows:
- List Comprehension vs For Loop
- List comprehensions vs lambda function
- List comprehensions with conditional expression
Now lets understand about its coding part with
example
We even can perform all the mathematical
calculations using list comprehenssion
For example, say you want to compute the
square of each number in a list. The output will be in sequence to loop over.
lst = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
squares = [x**2 for x in lst]
print(squares)
output:-
[1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]Explanation:- it has squared all the given list of
numbers of the created list with simple syntax
List Comprehension vs For Loop:-
USING FOR LOOP
evens = []
for i in range(10):
if i % 2 == 0:
evens. append(i)
print(evens)Output:-
[0, 2, 4, 6, 8]A better and faster way to write the
above code is through list comprehension.
Since the code is been executed and the output
is in the form is list and also we can see lot more different forms like lambda expression and the computation
visually noisy…
Unless you’re applying a single-argument
function, list comprehensions are clearer than the map built-in function for
simple cases..
lst = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
list(map(lambda x: x**2, lst))
output:-
[1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]List comprehension helps us to give the
output In the form of the list you can easily filter out the items out of the list.
List comprehensions with conditional expression
For example, say you only want to
compute the numbers less than 200, which are divisible by 4 and 7 both.
lst = [x for x in range(200) if x % 4 == 0 if x % 7 == 0]
print(lst)
output:-
[0, 28, 56, 84, 112, 140, 168, 196]Take another example, where you only
want to compute the squares of the numbers that are divisible by 4. Here, I do
this by adding a conditional expression to the list comprehension after the
loop
lst=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
even_squares = [x**4 for x in lst if x % 4== 0]
print(even_squares)
output:-
[256, 4096]Calculate even numbers between 1 to 100.
# a list of even numbers between 1 and 100
evens = [i for i in range(1,100) if not i % 4]
print(evens)output:-
[4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96]List comprehensions are far faster than
for loops when looping over a huge number of items. If readability alone isn't
a convincing reason to use them as much as possible, speed should be.
I hope you enjoyed reading this article and finally, you came
to know about What is List Comprehension and how we can use it.
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