I'm a noobie to real programming, i've done shell scripting before and just recently started reading some python docs. I've been in several situations now where I want to iterate over an object's ...

Many programs have a need to iterate over a large list of generated data. The conventional way to do this would be to calculate the values for the list and populate it, then loop over the whole thing.

Map is a common way to transform lists in most programming languages. In Python, map is a function that loops over a list and applies a function (that you provide) to each item. Your function receives ...