List Comprehensions

Remember how we used lambda functions along with map() and filter() to apply an operation to list members or to filter out list members based on criteria via a conditional expression? Well, list comprehensions simplify that task and improve performance by bypassing the necessity of using lambda along with functional programming built-in functions. List comprehensions allow you to provide an operation directly with an iteration over the original list sequence.

Let's take a look at the simpler list comprehension syntax first: