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Re: Help with map python 2

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Date 2015-01-04 22:48 +1100
Subject Re: Help with map python 2
From Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.17369.1420372135.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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^To print the first 8. To print the first 100: map(lambda i: -i if
i&1==1 else i, xrange(2, 102))

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> wrote:
> map(lambda i: -i if i&1==1 else i, xrange(2, 10))
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:34 PM, flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In repsonse to this question: Write a program that prints the first 100 members of the sequence 2, -3, 4, -5, 6, -7, 8.
>>
>> This is my solution it works but ugly.
>>
>> series = range(2,100)
>> # answer = [(x,(y* -1)) for x, y in series[::2]]
>> # print(answer)
>> answer = []
>> for item in series:
>>     if item % 2 != 0:
>>         answer.append(item * -1)
>>     else:
>>         answer.append(item)
>>
>> print(answer)
>>
>> I know I should be better off doing this with map but cannot get it to work. I understand also that map returns a generator so this solution should only working in python2(correct me please if I am wrong).
>>
>> In [6]: map?
>> Type:       builtin_function_or_method
>> String Form:<built-in function map>
>> Namespace:  Python builtin
>> Docstring:
>> map(function, sequence[, sequence, ...]) -> list
>>
>> Just getting something wrong
>> list(map((lambda x: x * -1 if (x%2 != 0)), series))
>> --
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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Help with map python 2 flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 03:34 -0800
  Re: Help with map python 2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 22:47 +1100
  Re: Help with map python 2 Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 22:47 +1100
  Re: Help with map python 2 Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 22:48 +1100
  Re: Help with map python 2 Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-01-04 14:08 +0200
    Re: Help with map python 2 flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2015-01-05 03:33 -0800
      Re: Help with map python 2 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-01-05 18:28 -0500
        Re: Help with map python 2 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-06 12:30 +1100
  Re: Help with map python 2 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-01-04 17:33 +0100
  Re: Help with map python 2 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-01-04 12:32 -0500
  Re: Help with map python 2 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-01-04 12:41 -0500
  Re: Help with map python 2 Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 10:06 -0800
  Re: Help with map python 2 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-01-04 16:13 -0500
    Re: Help with map python 2 flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2015-01-05 03:37 -0800
  Re: Help with map python 2 Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 21:22 +0000

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