substituting list comprehensions for map()

[Ben Finney]

"Jon P." <jbperez at gmail.com> writes:

> I'd like to do:
>
> resultlist = operandlist1 + operandlist2

That's an unfortunate way of expressing it; it's valid Python syntax
that doesn't do what you're describing (in this case, it will bind
‘resultlist’ to a new list that is the *concatenation* of the two
original lists).

> map(lambda op1,op2: op1 + op2, operandlist1, operandlist2)
>
> Is there any reasonable way to do this via a list comprehension ?

Yes, just about any ‘map()’ operation has a corresponding list
comprehension. (Does anyone know of a counter-example, a ‘map()’
operation that doesn't have a correspondingly simple list
comprehension?)

For the above case, this is how it's done::

    >>> operandlist1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    >>> operandlist2 = [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
    >>> resultlist = [(a + b) for (a, b) in zip(operandlist1, operandlist2)]
    >>> resultlist
    [6, 6, 6, 6, 6]

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