reading-notes

List Comprehension- 10k day 3

HARD TO READ THIS ARTICLE WITH ALL THESE ADS
AND THEN IT HAS THE AUDACITY TO CRASH
“You can see from this example that three ingredients are necessary for a python list comprehension to work. First is the expression we’d like to carry out. expression inside the square brackets. Second is the object that the expression will work on. item inside the square brackets. Finally, we need an iterable list of objects to build our new list from. list inside the square brackets.”- from article
you can use range to target items in a list
ex. for x/2 in range(10)
an example for letters: “# a list of the names of popular authors authors = [“Ernest Hemingway”,”Langston Hughes”,”Frank Herbert”,”Toni Morrison”, “Emily Dickson”,”Stephen King”]

create an acronym from the first letter of the author’s names letters = [ name[0] for name in authors ] print(letters)+”