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List Comprehensions

Concepts: pyListComprehension

Anatomy of a Comprehension Every list comprehension has three essential parts: the output expression, the for clause, and optionally one or more conditions. Understanding each part helps you write and read comprehensions fluently. Filtering with Conditions Try building different comprehensions by choosing what expression to apply and what filter to use. See how changing each part affects the output. Conditional Expressions You can use if-else directly in the output expression to transform values conditionally. This is different from filtering: every item is included, but the output value depends on a condition. Nested Comprehensions You can nest comprehensions for multi-dimensional data. The most common uses are flattening nested lists and creating 2D structures. Multiple for clauses proce