Thanks Peter. Shall figure it out with the below hint. I had a hunch am wrong but was not sure where to put in .
Thanks, Vinod Bhaskaran On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 7:11 PM Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > vinod bhaskaran wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am a beginner programmer and i wrote a small program (as per a > > assignment i saw) as below: > > > > newlist = [] > > for a in range(2,5): > > for b in range (0,3): > > newlist.append([a]) > > a = a + 1 > > print(newlist) > > > > it gives the expected output as below: > > [[2], [3], [4], [3], [4], [5], [4], [5], [6]] > > > > but when i try list comprehension i am not able to get it correct....can > > someone please suggest where the (a=a+1) should be placed in a list > > comprehension > > You canot sneak a statement like > > > a = a + 1 > > into a list comprehension, you have to modify the expressions. Given > > [[...] for a in range(2, 5) for b in range(3)] > > what expression replacing the ... would give the expected result? > > Hint: it depends on both a and b. > > Once you have figured it out you can try and reshuffle it a bit into > > [[b] for a in range(2, 5) for b in range(...)] > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
