You may have read that Python’s godfather, Guido van Rossum, doesn’t like the map() function too much. He argues that it can be easily replaced with list comprehension which is not only faster but also more readable and shorter. Here’s an example:
# Python Puzzle xs = list(range(10)) list_1 = list(map(lambda x: x*x, xs)) list_2 = [x*x for x in xs] print(list_1 == list_2)
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As you may have guessed, both lists list_1 and list_2 contain the same data: a series of squared values.
The puzzle shows two ways to achieve the same result. Either you can use map(function, list) and convert the resulting map object to a list or you iterate over each item with a list comprehension. Both ways lead to the same result, thus the output is True.