How can I use list comprehensions to process a nested list?
list, list-comprehension, nested, python
Solution
Here is how you would do this with a nested list comprehension:
[[float(y) for y in x] for x in l]
This would give you a list of lists, similar to what you started with except with floats instead of strings.
If you want one flat list, then you would use
[float(y) for x in l for y in x]
Note the loop order - `for x in l` comes first in this one.
Problem
I have this nested list: ``` l = [['40', '20', '10', '30'], ['20', '20', '20', '20', '20', '30', '20'], ['30', '20', '30', '50', '10', '30', '20', '20', '20'], ['100', '100'], ['100', '100', '100', '100', '100'], ['100', '100', '100', '100']] ``` I want to convert each element in `l` to `float`. I have this code: ``` newList = [] for x in l: for y in x: newList.append(float(y)) ``` How can I solve the problem with a nested list comprehension instead? See also: How can I get a flat result from a list comprehension instead of a nested list?