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From: Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
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Subject: How to flatten a list of lists was (Explanation of this Python language feature?)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:00:27 -0500
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On 3/27/14 6:45 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:42 PM, vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can anyone - maybe one of the Python language core team,
>>or someone with knowledge of the internals of Python - can
>>explain why this code works, and whether the different
>>occurrences of the name x in the expression, are in
>>different scopes or not? :
>>
>> x = [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6]]
>>      [x for x in x for x in x]
>
> I'll give this +1 for playfulness, and -2 for lack of clarity.
>
> I hope no one thinks this sort of thing is good to do in real-life code.
>

You might try this to flatten a list of lists:

 >>> from functools import reduce

 >>> import operator

 >>> import operator as λ

 >>> reduce(λ.add, l)

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
 >>>


marcus