[Chicago] A list comprehension???

Vivek Pabani vpabani at hawk.iit.edu
Tue May 5 02:02:17 CEST 2015


This worked for me :

[sum(xrange(0, 2*i, 2)) for i in xrange(1, 11)]
On May 4, 2015 7:00 PM, "kirby urner" <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry:
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> [(4*n**2 + 4*n)//4 for n in range(10)]
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> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi there,
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>> I'm reading this book, "Data Structures & Algorithms in Python" by
>> Goodrich, Tamassia, and Goldwasser.  A pretty good book, it really does
>> into detail about the Python language with various examples.
>>
>> Anyhow, one of the exercises is as follows:
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>> Demonstrate how to use Python's list comprehension syntax to produce the
>> list:
>> [0, 2, 6, 12, 20, 30, 42, 56, 72, 90].
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>> I'm struggling with this!
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>> The best I can do is the following:
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>> A = [0]
>> i = 2
>> while i <= 18:
>>     A.append(A[-1] + i)
>>      i+= 2
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>> print(A)
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>> Well it does work!  BUT it's not a list comprehension!
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>> Any suggestions?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Douglas.
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