for(each) element aliasing

[Matija Papec]

X-Ftn-To: Jp Calderone 

Jp Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
>> -------
>> 2 4 6
>
>  No.  Integers in Python are immutable.  For lists of other things, mutation in-place (similar to the above example) is possible, but for integers and other immutable types, it is not.  You may be interested in list comprehensions, though:
>
>    arr = range(1, 4)
>    arr[:] = [a * 2 for a in arr]
>    print arr

I guess this works like "map" but "for" is more idimatic.


Thank you all for so quick responses. :)


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Matija