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map and filter (aka grep) (Score:1)

by stvn_skuo (5628) <stvn_kuo@yahoo.com> on 2007.04.24 12:23 (#54654) Journal

That's how I first viewed list comprehensions in Python (been studying it for a few months now). List comprehensions are idiomatic Python.
In certain cases, list comprehensions are faster than map and filter:
http://www.sacredchao.net/~piman/writing/listcomp.shtml/ [sacredchao.net]
The Lisp-ish functions may be dropped in Python 3000 according to one well-known hacker:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 [artima.com]

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