A list comprehension builds a new list from an iterable in a single expression. Instead of creating an empty list and appending inside a for loop, you write the whole thing in brackets: [expression for item in iterable]. [x * x for x in range(5)] produces [0, 1, 4, 9, 16]. Comprehensions are shorter than the loop version, usually a little faster, and very common in exam code.
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