Comparing List Comprehensions vs. Built-In Functions in Python: Which Is Better?

An in-depth analysis of syntax, readability, and performance

Thomas A Dorfer
Towards Data Science
9 min readMar 21, 2023

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Image showing Python code that squares all values in a list, using both the built-in map function and a list comprehension.
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