[New Concept Exercise] : list-comprehensions

[BethanyG]

This issue describes how to implement the list-comprehensions concept exercise for the Python track.

Getting started

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• Concept Specifications
• Exercism Formatting and Style Guide
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• Reputation

Goal

The goal of this exercise is to teach the syntax and variants of list comprehensions in Python.

Learning objectives

• Understand how a list comprehension relates to the loop + append method of creating/computing a List.
• Create a list comprehension from a loop + append
• Create a list comprehension from a string, List, or other iterable (such as zip() or dict.items())
• Use one or more conditions/operators/methods to filter comprehension inputs
• Use methods or logic to format the elements (output members) of the comprehension
• Create a nested comprehension
• Create a nested comprehension with one or more formatting or filtering conditions

Out of scope

• Memory and performance characteristics and optimizations
• generators and generator expressions in list comprehensions
• How map() and filter() relate to or differ from list comprehensions
• Using the assignment expression (walrus operator) with a list comprehension

Concepts

• list-comprehensions

Prerequisites

• basics
• bools
• comparisons
• conditionals
• lists
• list-methods
• loops
• iteration
• sequences

Resources to refer to

• List Comprehensions (Python official docs)
• Nested List Comprehensions (Python official docs)
• When to Use a List Comprehension in Python (Real Python)
• Python List Comprehensions: Explained Visually (Trey Hunner)

Hints

• List Comprehensions section of the Python docs tutorial: List Comprehensions
• This animated GIF from Trey Hunner: List Comprehensions: The Movie

After

• comprehension syntax for other data structures such as sets and dictionaries
• generators and generator expressions
• generators and generator expressions in list comprehensions

Representer

No changes required.

Analyzer

No changes rquired.

Implementing

• Tests should be written using unittest.TestCase, and the test file named list_comprehensions_test.py.
• How to Implement a Concept Exercise in Python
• make-concept-exercise Utility

Help

If you have any questions while implementing the exercise, please post the questions as comments in this issue.

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[Steffan153]

Is this actually claimed? :) If not, I'd like to work on it. By the way, can we steal https://github.com/exercism/elixir/blob/main/exercises/concept/boutique-suggestions/.docs/instructions.md for this? Elixir's list comprehensions are very similar.

[BethanyG]

Hi @Steffan153! Welcome to the Python track. 👋🏽
This is indeed already claimed by me, and is in progress. Thanks for checking tho!

[BethanyG]

Flagging this as a re-do with new issue template, as this has aged, and the actions bot is getting annoying. Closing for now until the redo can happen.