[docs] map objects are not lists

Chris Jerdonek chris.jerdonek at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 05:52:59 CEST 2012


> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:14:36 -0400
> From: Aaron Leanhardt <aaron at leanhardtingenuities.com>
> Subject: [docs] map objects are not lists
>
> 5.1.3. List Comprehensions<http://docs.python.org/dev/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions>
>
> ...
>
> This is also equivalent to squares = map(lambda x: x**2, range(10)), but
> it?s more concise and readable.
>
>
> I think that the last sentence above should read:
>
> squares = list(map(lambda x: x**2, range(10)))

Hi Aaron, thanks for the report.  I created an issue in the tracker
for this here:

http://bugs.python.org/issue16073

--Chris


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