Can someone explain how this works?

[Jason de Vere]

I keep seeing syntax in Python like this:

my_list =  ['the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 'jumps', 'over', 'the', 'lazy', 'dog', '.']
print([word for word in my_list]) 

It's useful because we can do things like this with it:

my_list_filtered = [word for word in my_list if word != "the"]

I know what it does but I don't know what this syntax is called or where to read up on it. It seems to be some kind of implementation of a for loop, but inside a list. can anyone shed some light?

Many thanks
Jason

[Stephan van Hulst]

This is called a "list comprehension".

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension

[Jason de Vere]

Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for.