Calling filter returns [duplicate]

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It looks like you’re using python 3.x. In python3, filter, map, zip, etc return an object which is iterable, but not a list. In other words,

filter(func,data) #python 2.x

is equivalent to:

list(filter(func,data)) #python 3.x

I think it was changed because you (often) want to do the filtering in a lazy sense — You don’t need to consume all of the memory to create a list up front, as long as the iterator returns the same thing a list would during iteration.

If you’re familiar with list comprehensions and generator expressions, the above filter is now (almost) equivalent to the following in python3.x:

( x for x in data if func(x) )

As opposed to:

[ x for x in data if func(x) ]

in python 2.x

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