10 Python Comprehensions You SHOULD Be Using

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In this video, I will be showing you 10 Python comprehensions you can & should be using. These comprehensions will progress in difficulty, so be sure to stick around until the end of the video!
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⏳ Timestamps ⏳
00:00 | Overview
00:11 | Basic List Comprehensions
02:06 | Comprehension Condition
04:22 | If You're Serious About Becoming A Developer
05:20 | Comprehension With Multiple Conditions
07:42 | Multiple List Comprehension
09:18 | If/Else In A Comprehension
11:22 | Nested List Comprehension
14:32 | Transformation In Comprehension
15:38 | Dictionary Comprehension
16:47 | Set Comprehension
17:49 | Generator Comprehension
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@TechWithTim 2 ай бұрын

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@DarinCox-or1iq 2 ай бұрын

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@satheshasachithra 2 ай бұрын

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@MiAmigoKier 2 ай бұрын

May I ask, what is your keyboard, it sounds great btw

@DarinCox-or1iq 2 ай бұрын

@gameslp7583 Ай бұрын

boy do you know str.startswith() and str.endswith ?

@kerrykreiter445 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely the best tutorial I’ve watched on comprehensions. Thank you for making it very understandable. I would also appreciate the same type of video covering Lambda functions. Thanks again for helping so many!!

@eladiomendez8226 2 ай бұрын

Is this list comprehensive of all comprehensions ? 😅

@gaussdog 2 ай бұрын

Is your comprehension comprehensive?

@YarPirates-vy7iv Ай бұрын

As a connoisseur of dad jokes I want to thank you for this contribution. 🎉

@NearLWatson Ай бұрын

Comprehensive list of comprehensions to help comprehend a list of comprehensions within which the list comprehension is included.

@Indently 2 ай бұрын

07:28 I actually never knew you could insert multiple conditions like that, pretty cool!

@RadChromeDude 12 күн бұрын

what's the difference between that and simply chaining the conditions together with the "and" operator?

@whiteedward1 27 күн бұрын

I've barely learned anything in python and easily picked up the information. So simple, yet elegant explanations. Thank you. It has already helped me in my assignments.

@mikespon 24 күн бұрын

I love your teaching style. Very easy to follow. Thank you for all your hard work.

@BiologyIsHot Ай бұрын

The syntax for flattening a list always feels very wrong. Given that single list comprehensions put their iterable to the left, it always feels odd that for num in row is to the right of matrix. It REALLY feels like it should have been [num for num in row for row in matrix] instead of what it actually is. I actually think this is one of the worst bits of Python and I encourage people to not do these neste/unpacking list comphrensions because of how unreadable they are. It would have been great if they gave us some kind of unpacking operator syntactic sugar here with [*row for row in matrix]. That would have been a much better syntax than [item for sublist in nested_list for item in sublist]

@kissuko931 6 күн бұрын

better variable names improve comprehension

@sdmagic 2 ай бұрын

Very well done. Thanks!

@BruceDuncan 2 ай бұрын

Oof you got me. Been writing python for 15 years and never knew that you could have multiple `if` statements in a comprehension. I have always written `and` and assumed you made a syntax error 😂

@wandksitesupport2777 Ай бұрын

nah jit bro got a whole level of python knowledge but still dont know that

@nirty6340 Ай бұрын

@@wandksitesupport2777 it doesnt matter to be honest correct me if i wrong but if you replace all if's with and expect first it would work the same

@swagatopablo 2 ай бұрын

Most comprehensions can be replaced by some combination of map and filter, which I find far cleaner. Further, in most cases, you will iterate through the iterator only once, in which case, you can leave it as an iterator (map and filter) form until you use it (unlike, for example, using comprehension to give you an iterable). This is far more pythonic and memory efficient too.

@elatedbento 2 ай бұрын

Things are a bit gray here. You can easily replace the list comprehension to a generator comprehension by just changing to parenthesis, in case you need that memory efficiency. Most developers nowadays advocate for list/gen comprehensions over map and filter statements, for readability and performance. There is nothing wrong with map and filter, though.

@swagatopablo Ай бұрын

@@elatedbento Curious, do most developers advocate against map and filter? Why? I am just curious if there have been some benchmarking on performance or some other motivation behind it that I don't know of. In general, I love the clarity of functional constructs which explains my bias.

@mikec64 2 ай бұрын

I found the way you formatted the comprehension that calculates squares is a really helpful way to think about comprehensions, even if I compress them to a single line. In that form, it looks like the comprehension just skips the result=[ ] statement, which I always thought was ugly. And in nested loops it gets rid of all those intermediate lists and variables. For the first time they look more elegant to me.

@user-ty1gv6xg1o Ай бұрын

Man... I love how clean this looks

@Soyosan22 2 ай бұрын

This is an absolutely excellent video. Your examples and explanations are always great. I think it is time for you to start working on a Python book. I am sure it will be a huge success. :)

@kapibara2440 2 ай бұрын

Great content, like always from you. Thanks Tim! Greetings from Poland 😊

@i5presnt562 2 ай бұрын

I needed this kind of videos thx so much

@lucasseagull8282 2 ай бұрын

Man, you grew a lot in past 3 years :)) I'm just watching your video called: Python Selenium Tutorial #2 - Locating Elements From HTML, where you are referring to your website for testing. However, it's no use as the website is now different - can you do the remake of your selenium tutorials / make it up-to date? Thank you and good luck!

@andresbonelli 2 ай бұрын

You can even nest comprehensions inside of other functions, inside of user inputs... ie: print(*(list("Hello" for _ in range(int(input("How many 'Hello' would you like to print? ")))))) Python is wild...

@AlexTrusk91 2 ай бұрын

Thanks, pretty edutaining stuff

@RadChromeDude 12 күн бұрын

Man list comprehensions are just amazing. I've just finished a level 1000 coding module in python. Basically, i ended up (ab)using list compre wherever I could. It's just that elegant!

@Ohiostategenerationx 2 ай бұрын

Looks good. I'm just now learning it but as far as I can tell it looks way better than the original code.

@DrDeuteron 2 ай бұрын

Nested list comp: >>>flattened = list(chain(*matrix)) chain is from itertools.

@jamesarthurkimbell 2 ай бұрын

They also have a chain_from_iterable for this case... but I agree, I'd rather just type the star

@user-ts9ks8in2n 2 ай бұрын

Comprendre! Thanks Tim.

@ricdelmar4961 2 ай бұрын

Another interesting point about generator expressions, is how they work with the all and any functions. Those functions will use the same kind of short-circuit evaluation that compound conditionals use -- that is, they will only evaluate as many items from the generator that they need in order to determine whether the result should be True or False.

@AirLight1646 Ай бұрын

What a comprehensive guide.

@stefanvanbraam4378 2 ай бұрын

Hi. Great video. Do you have a video that teaches you how to change the text color (scope) such as print, for, if statements in Sublime 3? Thanks

@yasufadhili 2 ай бұрын

Thanks alot again

@mimizone Ай бұрын

note that the implementation with generator that uses less memory, is slower overall

@krzysiekkrzysiek9059 2 ай бұрын

And these are the best kind of tips 👌

@BrianStDenis-pj1tq 2 ай бұрын

Great video. One thing you might add is a speed comparison. I believe comprehensions are extremely fast, and while one might argue readability, performance is far superior.

@GigasAhriman 2 ай бұрын

I've always wondered about speed comparison but I have no idea how to set that one up

@BrianStDenis-pj1tq 2 ай бұрын

@@GigasAhriman The last example in this video showed a scenario. Star with a range of like 100M. Then make a list of the integers. Do it in a for loop (with list.append()) and then in a comprehension. Use time.perfcounter() before and after.

@GigasAhriman 2 ай бұрын

@@BrianStDenis-pj1tq that's the first time I've heard of time.perfcounter() Ty

@BrianStDenis-pj1tq 2 ай бұрын

@@GigasAhriman BTW, I left out a character, its time.perf_counter()

@mikec64 2 ай бұрын

@@BrianStDenis-pj1tq Thanks for the perf_counter tip. I ran the 3D array (1000 x 200 x 500) test both ways. The loop was 4.7 sec, the comprehension was 2.6 sec. Results varied if I used numbers too small or so large that they ate up all my RAM.

@shapunna6151 Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot ❤

@andiglazkov4915 2 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

@nascentnaga 2 ай бұрын

I did not know sum() would store the internal value. That is very interesting.

@mahmoudhasan6954 2 ай бұрын

You can apply sum(),max(),min(), len() and other functions as well

@chinzorigyou 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@Da_phuc 2 ай бұрын

Ah yeah!! Good stuff aahhhhhhhhh!! More baby boi !!!

@largewallofbeans9812 Ай бұрын

For number 1, it’s much easier just to write list(range(10)) or [*range(10]. Of course, this doesn’t allow for manipulation of the numbers in the range, but it’s still something to be aware of. Same type of thing goes for the conditional comprehension and the filter function.

@KeithKazamaFlick 2 ай бұрын

my guy tim. cheers buddy

@godwinv4838 2 ай бұрын

thank you

@user-qs2hn9zp3d 2 ай бұрын

tq bro.. I have learned lot. 🥺🥺

@TechWithTim 2 ай бұрын

Welcome 😊

@jamesarthurkimbell 2 ай бұрын

Another benefit is that variables don't leak out the way they do with for loops. Less of an issue if you're using underscores, but still.

@asdfmoviesssssssssss 4 күн бұрын

hey! curous about the last example where you do: sum(x**2 for x in range(10000000)) instead of sum([x**2 for x in range(10000000)]). I just tested it out, but I see that using the list comprehension is a bit faster to execute. Why is it that the execution time is slower for a more efficient approach using the generator?

@samoodie 2 ай бұрын

Hey tim, i was wondering if you had any videos on your channel that could help me with DSA in python. Do you have like a youtube playlist?

@kazmi401 2 ай бұрын

The have a paid course on algoexpert. But that's not for beginners. i have a year of experience. even that's was a little bit hard for me. but now i am smooth. mmmm it was great "i think".

@adiaphoros6842 Ай бұрын

The nested list comprehension would be more readable to me if the syntax goes inside out. For example: flattened = [num for num in row in array]

@jackiesofir4660 2 ай бұрын

This is the only way we populated list where I work. Literly appending is I'll advised

@justliberty4072 Ай бұрын

I'm surprised that Tim didn't mention the time-performance benefits of using comprehensions.

@AnatoliyRU Ай бұрын

for first `values = list(range(10))` is better

@dmaynor 2 ай бұрын

How does the example at &t6:30 work? you don't have to terminate login in []?

@CynicAtLarge 2 ай бұрын

3D example would be more clear if you used different range values for each dimension.

@TechWithTim 2 ай бұрын

Good point that was not the best example

@Chill018 21 күн бұрын

i'm wondering is there a way to use dict comperhensions but not using a list of tuples?

@DrDeuteron 2 ай бұрын

regarding the check on string length (5:40): string[slice(None, 1)] == 'a' and string[slice(None, -2, -1)] == 'y' works so: >>>valid_string = list(filter(lambda string: string[slice(None, 1)] == 'a' and string[slice(None, -2, -1)] == 'y', options)) takes care of business, buy may necessitate a code comment.

@shawn445 2 ай бұрын

This is a great video but I've been having the issue of figuring out when I would use these in real life scenarios m it would be great if I had applicable examples

@elatedbento 2 ай бұрын

Comprehension with multiple conditions

@TragicGFuel Ай бұрын

Yeah personally, these comprehensions would confuse the hell out of someone who's unfamiliar and probably would have understood the more verbose syntax easier.

@uuuppz 8 күн бұрын

valid_strings = [option for option in options if option[0]!='a' and option[-1]!='y' ]

@Kknewkles 22 күн бұрын

Is there anything else among features of Python that is on the level of usefulness of comprehensions? I've been programming in Python for over 5 years now, and that's the only half-advanced feature of it that I'm using. Oh, also tiny lambdas and context managers.

@svdden_strike 2 ай бұрын

Can you teach us how to create a CMS for a website

@ImmacHn Ай бұрын

So basically, sintactic sugar for reduce/map , got it.

@erikjohnson9112 2 ай бұрын

I don't get a generator for your last example: >>> sub_of_squares = sum(x**2 for x in range(100)) >>> type(sub_of_squares)

@JanKowalski-dm5vr 2 ай бұрын

This is generator: sub_of_squares = (x**2 for x in range(100)) and you can use next(sub_of_squares) And this is sum function that call generator instead create whole list sub_of_squares = sum(x**2 for x in range(100))

@gogasaldadze1639 2 ай бұрын

i would prefer to use this type lis=[i for i in a if i[0]=='a' and i[-1]=='y']

@giovannisins 2 ай бұрын

Shouldn't at 5:59 the first condition be greater than or equals to 2 like you show after?

@HarnessedGnat Ай бұрын

In the first group the unwanted options are being filtered out, (toss out anything too short), and in the comprehension he is selecting for those strings that match the requirements. Same end result but one test is the inverse.

@giovannisins Ай бұрын

You are right, thank you

@lesheq85 Ай бұрын

why in 17:42 you got 16 on the first spot and the rest in order? I don't think that was supposed to happen

@DrDeuteron 2 ай бұрын

even/odd. since if is the new goto (harmful), I select with: {0: 'even', 1: 'odd'}[x % 2] which is why devs hate me. Actually, I'd map the list to (2).__rmod__ and map that to dict.getitem.

@garrettsmith315 2 ай бұрын

A little heavy on the reverb, could use a tiny bit of bass boost to the voice as well.

@TechWithTim 2 ай бұрын

Agree unfortunately my recording setup isn’t the best right now as I’m moving around

@garrettsmith315 2 ай бұрын

@@TechWithTim Great content thought...waiting for some Golang.....

@lamborghinicentenario2497 2 ай бұрын

Didn't even know this wizardry existed

@kazmi401 2 ай бұрын

Keyboard name please.

@mikeeotool2677 2 ай бұрын

TIIIIMMMMM i copy the the script "strings that start with 'a" and end with "y" as it shows in the screen and when i run it give me 3 errors for every instance that you have "string" and asked me for "strings" and the code runned great, so I think you made 3 typos.

@jayamankrah4328 2 ай бұрын

Check from your side, it might be you made the typo.

@mbnyc5401 15 күн бұрын

c# does it so much getter

@Sanjay-tiwary 2 ай бұрын

@Heavy_Lvy 7 күн бұрын

values = list(range(10))👀👀👀👀👀👀

@wandksitesupport2777 Ай бұрын

i like to watch your video especially in coursecareer im trying to get a job with software engeneer

@johnsensebe3153 29 күн бұрын

Instead of [x for x in range(10)], one can simply use list(range(10)).

@timothytjerije7262 2 ай бұрын

Good day Tim. Your text is not visible, please find a way. Your lessons are good though...

@TechWithTim 2 ай бұрын

Hmmm turn up your resolution

@jeromemoutou9744 2 ай бұрын

@@TechWithTim the red text is quite hard to see, especially when highlighted.

@BoredBoy888 2 ай бұрын

Text is perfectly fine, just find a way to read it 😉

@HarnessedGnat Ай бұрын

All text colors look fine on this tablet. Adjust monitor, or try a different one.

@CryptoBuilders 2 ай бұрын

is this pythonic?

@tincustefanlucian7495 2 ай бұрын

nice synthesis. I'm using all of them(except multiple if condition, nice one). I would add another dictionary comprehension that I use often, when i want to filter items or find items in a really big dictionary: hay_dictionary = {"first": 1, "second": 2, "needle":4, "second_needle": 5, "last": 6, .................} a really big dictionary {k:v for k, v in hay_dictionary.items() if "needle" in k} this will return only the item that have in key "needle" {"needle":4, "second_needle": 5}

@newh1ve39 2 ай бұрын

I understand the intention… but I dont understand why you dont show the differences in execution time. If there is no difference its not worth it at the moment in my opinion.

@HarnessedGnat Ай бұрын

It’s been pointed out in other comments that comprehensions are faster…. Someone suggested Time.perf_counter() Programmers reading code efficiently (see what’s written, faster and more reliably) has value too.

@LiamInviteMelonTeee Ай бұрын

I guess this is mostly about readability, the performance increase varies from version to version of python (just got a boost in 3.12, see mcoding's video)