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> Date: 2012年9月20日 15:14:36 -0400
> To: docs@python.org
> Subject: [docs] map objects are not lists
>
> 5.1.3. List Comprehensions<http://docs.python.org/dev/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions>
>
> List comprehensions provide a concise way to create lists. Common
> applications are to make new lists where each element is the result of some
> operations applied to each member of another sequence or iterable, or to
> create a subsequence of those elements that satisfy a certain condition.
>
> For example, assume we want to create a list of squares, like:
>>>>
>
>>>> squares = []>>> for x in range(10):... squares.append(x**2)...>>> squares[0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]
>
> We can obtain the same result with:
>
> squares = [x**2 for x in range(10)]
>
> This is also equivalent to squares = map(lambda x: x**2, range(10)), but
> it?s more concise and readable.
>
>
> I think that the last sentence above should read:
>
> squares = list(map(lambda x: x**2, range(10)))
>
> In other words, the map function returns a map object, not a list object,
> so the list() function needs to be used to convert it to something that is
> truly equivalent to the previous definitions of "squares". (In case it
> matters, I am using Python-3.3.0rc2 on RHEL 6.3.)
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