On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:37 AM, Peter O'Connor
Let's look at a task where there is "one obvious way"
Suppose someone asks: "How can I build a list of squares of the first 100 odd numbers [1, 9, 25, 49, ....] in Python?" The answer is now obvious - few people would do this:
list_of_odd_squares = [] for i in range(100): list_of_odd_squares.append((i*2+1)**2)
or this:
def iter_odd_squares(n)): for i in range(n): yield (i*2+1)**2
list_of_odd_squares = list(iter_odd_squares(100))
Because it's just more clean, compact, readable and "obvious" to do:
list_of_even_squares = [(i*2+1)**2 for i in range(100)]
Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but I think most Python users would agree.
Or: squares = [i**2 for i in range(1, 200, 2)] So maybe even the obvious examples aren't quite as obvious as you might think. ChrisA