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Converting a list of strings into a list of integers?

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Mon Jul 23 10:27:19 EDT 2012 
On 2012-07-22, Jan Riechers <janpeterr at freenet.de> wrote:

> I am not sure why everyone is using the for-iterator option over a 
> "map", but I would do it like that:
>
> MODUS_LIST= map(int, options.modus_list)
>
> "map" works on a list and does commandX (here "int" conversion, use 
> "str" for string.. et cetera) on sequenceY, returning a sequence. More 
> in the help file.

"map" is what comes to mind first for me, but that's probably because

 1) Before I learned Python, I learned other more functional languages
    where map was the definitive answer.

 2) When I first learned Python it didn't have list comprehensions. 
 
That said, "map" seems to be frowned upon by the Python community for
reasons I've never really understood, and most people are going to
prefer reading a list comprehension.  "What most people are going to
prefer reading" does matter...

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