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#21739: mention subtle difference between loops and listcomps in tutorial.
We don't want to go into a full explanation of scopes at this point in the tutorial, so we just mention that the loop creates or overwrites a persistent variable while the listcomp doesn't. Not mentioning this would lead someone to incorrectly assume loops and listcomps were *completely* equivalent, which would confuse them later. Original patch by Rose Ames, tweaked to remove the word 'scope'.
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@ -199,12 +199,17 @@ For example, assume we want to create a list of squares, like::
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>>> squares
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[0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]
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We can obtain the same result with::
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Note that this creates (or overwrites) a variable named ``x`` that still exists
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after the loop completes. We can calculate the list of squares without any
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side effects using::
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squares = list(map(lambda x: x**2, range(10)))
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or, equivalently::
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squares = [x**2 for x in range(10)]
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This is also equivalent to ``squares = list(map(lambda x: x**2, range(10)))``,
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but it's more concise and readable.
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which is more concise and readable.
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A list comprehension consists of brackets containing an expression followed
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by a :keyword:`for` clause, then zero or more :keyword:`for` or :keyword:`if`
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