reordering elements of a list

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Sat Jun 3 23:16:30 EDT 2006


greenflame wrote:
> Thank you all for your replies. The only thing is I do not understand
> how the code is working. The following are more particular questions.

Actually, these are statements, not questions. But anyways:

> Travis: Iam sorry, but I do not know what list comprehension is.
> Roberto: I do not understand the first half of the last line of your
> code.

That's what a list comprehension is.

> Also thank you for also teaching me to use '+' to append one list
> to another. This will be very useful for me.
> Christoph: I do not undertand the map method.

There is documentation on map() about halfway down this page:

  http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html

Here's a tutorial which you should read:

  http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco




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