One of the most common use cases for unpacking is to pass a list or dictionary to a function as a series of its elements rather than as a single object. The "*" unpacking operator (and its companion, ...

This is an extension of my blog article about list comprehensions and the first part of an advanced python series. We will cover List Comprehensions, Lambdas, Functional Programming, Map / Reduce / ...

‘Know what a “list comprehension” is? Odds are, you do–but that’s a different thing from using it, and using it well might be in a third category. Let’s look at a couple of specific examples, and see ...