List comprehension confusion...

[Max M]

Afanasiy wrote:
> I am confused about the purpose of list comprehensions.
> What can they do which an explicit for loop cannot?

In my feeble mind list comprehensions are the pythonic one liner way of 
writing select statments:


"select * from aList where size = 42"


[obj for obj in aList if size = 42]


Anyhoo that is how I go my mind around them the first time.


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