List comprehension confusion...

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Sun Feb 2 01:46:33 EST 2003


Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters wrote:

> Just to throw flame on the fire, I am one of the odd people who find
> map
> quite readable too:
> 
>   result = map(lambda t: t.some_field, data)

I find it quite readable as well, even with lambdas, provided they're
not too involved.  List comprehensions just make it more readable, and
can throw in filter functionality to boot.

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