11.7. List comprehensions

11.7. List comprehensions
	Chapter 11. Repetitions

Python provides a shortcut to create lists from other lists by specyfying a formula to be applied to each element:

>>> [x*x for x in [1,2,3]]
[1, 4, 9]

This stands for:

l = []
for x in [1,2,3]:
   l.append(x*x)

	Exercise 11.2. Converting a list from integers to floats
	Given a list of integers, generate the list of the corresponding floats.

You can filter the source list by providing a condition:

>>> [x*x for x in [1,2,3] if x < 3]
[1, 4]

You can create any type of elements of the new list, e.g sub-lists, strings, booleans:

>>> [ [x, x+1] for x in [1,2,3]]
[[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4]]

>>> [ "--" + str(x) + "--"  for x in [1,2,3]]
['--1--', '--2--', '--3--']

>>> seq = "abcdefghji"
>>> [ isAminoAcid(c) for c in seq]
[True, True, True, True, True, True, True, True, False, True]

You can iterate over several lists:

>>> [x + y for x in [0,1,2] for y in [0,1,2]]
[0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4]

This construct is equivalent to:

l = []
for x in [0,1,2]:
   for y in [0,1,2]:
      l.append(x+y)

	Exercise 11.3. Generate the list of all possible codons
	Generate a list of all the codons in the form (c1, c2, c3).


11.6. The map function		Chapter 12. Exceptions