The Python Apprentice

Summary

• Comprehensions are a concise syntax for describing lists, sets and dictionaries.

• Comprehensions operate on a iterable source object and apply an optional predicate filter and a mandatory expression, both of which are usually in terms of the current item.

• The iterables objects are objects over which we can iterate item-by-item.

• We retrieve an iterator from an iterable object using the built-in iter() function.

• Iterators produce items one-by-one from the underlying iterable series each time they are passed to the built-in next() function.

• Iterators raise a StopIteration exception when the collection is exhausted.