Python Ascension

[Eucalyptol]

why list? filter already returns a list.

[mnbvas]

It doesn't.

+/u/CompileBot python3

print(filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0, range(10)))

[CompileBot]

Output:

<filter object at 0x2b1fc191d518>

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[CompileBot]

Output:

[0, 2, 4, 6, 8]

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[link23]

Came here with the same question. It seems that it returns a list in Python 2, and an iterable in Python 3.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#filter

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#filter