reduce to be removed?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Dustan wrote:

>>>> foo =\
> [[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]],
>  [[3,2,1],[6,5,4],[9,8,7]]]
> 
> Here, foo appears to be a 3-dimensional list - except it's supposed to
> be 2-dimensional. The inner-list-of-lists is a result of how I'm
> producing the data, and now I want to do a mass-concatenation (or
> extending) of the inner-list-of-lists, and come up with this result:
> 
>>>> foo == [[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9],[3,2,1,6,5,4,9,8,7]]
> True

that still doesn't explain your "the expression must be used in a list 
comprehension" requirement, though.  assuming that the sizes are 
varying, and at least sometimes a lot larger than 3x3, I'd probably 
write the above as

     for index, item in enumerate(foo):
         this = []
         for i in item:
             this.extend(i)
         foo[index] = this

which should be pretty efficient, since it avoids unnecessary function 
calls, and is amortized linear time instead of O(N**2).

or, if I was in a hurry, and didn't really care if the inner sequences 
were lists or tuples:

	foo = map(Tkinter._flatten, foo)

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