adjacent differences with a list comprehension

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 13:31, Phil Schmidt wrote:
> Given a list of numbers, such as:
> 
> L = [2, 5, 8, 3, 9, 1]
> 
> I want to generate a list containing the differences between adjacent
> elements, i.e.,
> 
> Ld = [3, 3, -5, 6, -8]
> 
> I don't see how I can do this (easily/elegantly) with list
> comprehensions.
> 
> Any suggestions? Thanks!

[j - i for i, j in zip(L, L[1:])]


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