Does anyone know if Python has an in-built function to work to print out even values. Like range() for example.
Thanks
Does anyone know if Python has an in-built function to work to print out even values. Like range() for example.
Thanks
Range has three parameters.
You can write range(0, 10, 2)
.
Just use a step of 2:
range(start, end, step)
Try:
range( 0, 10, 2 )
I don't know if this is what you want to hear, but it's pretty trivial to filter out odd values with list comprehension.
evens = [x for x in range(100) if x%2 == 0]
or
evens = [x for x in range(100) if x&1 == 0]
You could also use the optional step size parameter for range
to count up by 2.
>>> if 100 % 2 == 0 : print "even"
...
even
There are also a few ways to write a lazy, infinite iterators of even numbers.
We will use the itertools
module and more_itertools
1 to make iterators that emulate range()
.
import itertools as it
import more_itertools as mit
# Infinite iterators
a = it.count(0, 2)
b = mit.tabulate(lambda x: 2 * x, 0)
c = mit.iterate(lambda x: x + 2, 0)
All of the latter options can generate an infinite sequence of even numbers, 0, 2, 4, 6, ...
.
You can treat these like any generator by looping over them, or you can select n
numbers from the sequence via itertools.islice
or take
from the itertools recipes e.g.:
mit.take(10, a)
# [0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18]
This is equivalent to list(range(0, 20, 2))
. However, unlike range()
, the iterator is paused and will yield the next batch of even numbers if run again:
mit.take(10, a)
# [20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38]
Details
The options presented are all infinite iterators that start
with an integer, i.e. 0
.
itertools.count
yields the next value incremented by a step=2
(see equivalent code).more_itertools.tabulate
is an itertools recipe that maps a function to each value of a number line (see source code). more_itertools.iterate
yields the starting value (0
). It then applies a function to the last item (incrementing by 2), yields that result and repeats this process (see source code).1A third-party package that implements many useful tools, including itertools recipes such as take
and tabulate
.
#This is not suggestible way to code in Python, but it gives a better understanding
numbers = range(1,10)
even = []
for i in numbers:
if i%2 == 0:
even.append(i)
print (even)
a = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100]
b = [i for i in a if i % 2 == 0]
print("Original List -->", a,"\n")
print("and the Even Numbers-->", b)