Week 10: Conditionals and List Comprehension

ternary operation

A conditional expression that has three operands

conditional list comprehensions

A list comprehension can be extended with an optional conditional caluse that causes the statement to return a list with only certain elements

Coditional expression

Works to assign a variable to with an if else in one line, only works if trying to assign same variable within if-else branch.

Conditional expression format

has the form exprWhenTrue if condition else exprWhenFalse

List comprehension

iterates over a list, modifies each element, and returns a new list consisting of the modified elements

List comprehension format

new_list = [expression for loop_variable_name in iterable]

Conditional list comprehensions format

new_list = [expression for name in iterable if condtion]