Python Essentials

Summary

In this chapter, we've seen a number of the advanced features of functions. We've looked at the essential generator expression and how this is used as part of a comprehension. A list comprehension assembles a list from the generated values. Similarly, a set comprehension creates a set. A dictionary comprehension creates a dict structure from the keys and values in a generator expression.

We've looked at using the yield statement to create a generator function. This allows us to use all of the various Python statement features when creating a generator. Since a generator is iterable, it works with a for loop so that we can write a simple loop to process multiple values created by an iterator.

We've also looked at higher-order functions. These ...