list_comprehension_2.ipynb

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      "# List Comprehension 2\n",
      "\n",
      "- **Author:** [Chris Albon](http://www.chrisalbon.com/), [@ChrisAlbon](https://twitter.com/chrisalbon)\n",
      "- **Date:** -\n",
      "- **Repo:** [Python 3 code snippets for data science](https://github.com/chrisalbon/code_py)\n",
      "- **Note:** Based on http://datasciencelab.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/list-comprehension-in-python/"
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      "## First Letter Of Every Word"
     ]
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      "### Import the string module"
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      "import string"
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      "### Create a variable that includes all punctuation and adds a blank space\n",
      "\n",
      "string.punctuation is: !\"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~"
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      "punct = string.punctuation + ' '"
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      "### Create a string for all vowels"
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     "input": [
      "vowels = 'aeiou'"
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     "prompt_number": 8
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     "source": [
      "### Create some text"
     ]
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     "input": [
      "phrase = 'Strictly speaking Python strings are categorized as immutable sequences'"
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      "### Create a variable for the first letter in every word of phase, after split up"
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      "first_letter = [w[0] for w in phrase.split()]"
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     "source": [
      "### Print it out"
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     "input": [
      "first_letter"
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       "text": [
        "['S', 's', 'P', 's', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'i', 's']"
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      "### In the above example here is the breakdown of the list Comprehension\n",
      "\n",
      "- [w[0]             is the output. That is, what we want done.\n",
      "- for w in          is the iterator identifier\n",
      "- phrase.split()]   is the input"
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     "source": [
      "### You can also add a conditional statement"
     ]
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     "source": [
      "### Create some simulated numbers"
     ]
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     "input": [
      "numbers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]"
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     "language": "python",
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     "outputs": [],
     "prompt_number": 12
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     "source": [
      "### Create a variable called output that squared every element in numbers variable if it is divisible by 2"
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      "output = [x**2 for x in numbers if x%2 == 0]"
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     "source": [
      "### View the output"
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     "input": [
      "output"
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       "text": [
        "[0, 4, 16, 36, 64, 100]"
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