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How can I use a list comprehension to extend a list in python? [duplicate]
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For example, this snippet:
out = []
for foo in foo_list:
out.extend(get_bar_list(foo)) # get_bar_list return list with some data
return out
How to shorten this code using list comprehension?
You can use a generator expression and consume it with itertools.chain
:
from itertools import chain
out = list(chain.from_iterable(get_bar_list(foo) for foo in foo_list))
You can use a nested list-comprehension:
out = [foo for sub_item in foo_list for foo in get_bar_list(sub_item)]
FWIW, I always have a hard time remembering exactly what order things come in for nested list comprehensions and so I usually prefer to use itertools.chain
(as mentioned in the answer by Moses). However, if you really love nested list-comprehensions, the order is the same as you would encounter them in a normal loop (with the innermost loop variable available for the first expression in the list comprehension):
for sub_item in foo_list:
for foo in get_bar_list(sub_item):
out.append(foo)