I have a problem set in hand, the description is something like:
We have 2 lists ie "nums1" and "nums2" and 2 integers m and n
nums1 = [1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9]
m = 3
nums2 = [2, 5, 6]
n = 2
Here "m" denotes number of elements to be picked from "nums1" and "n" denotes the number of elements to be picked from "nums2". There are other ways ofcourse, but I want to create a list with only "list comprehension" on the above conditions.
With a simple for loop I can achieve that with:
li = []
for i in range(m):
li.append(nums1[i])
for j in range(n):
li.append(nums2[j])
print(li)
I tried the following but the outcome result is not as expected:
[a for a in nums1 for b in nums2]
Expected output: [1, 2, 2, 3, 5]
Also, does list comprehension supports multiple loop?
Given the following:
nums1 = [1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9]
m = 3
nums2 = [2, 5, 6]
n = 2
Using strictly list comprehension, the following does what you asked for:
sorted([nums1[a] for a in range(m)] + [nums2[b] for b in range(n)])
Returns:
[1, 2, 2, 3, 5]
as per the conditions with "List comprehension" to be specific.
Although as others have said in the comment, a slice would have been more pythonic and easier to reason about. But since you asked for a list comprehension implementation, then this is as close to an answer as you'll get.