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All About Python Comprehensions

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Mike Driscoll
Oct 09, 2024
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Python supports a short hand method for creating lists, dictionaries and sets that is known as comprehensions. The common use case is that you want to create a new list where each element has had some kind of operation done to them. For example, if you have a list of numbers and you want to create a new list with all the numbers doubled, you could use a…

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