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<li><p><a href="#For-loop-variables-and-the-global-namespace-leak">For-loop variables and the global namespace leak</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="#Comparing-unorderable-types">Comparing unorderable types</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="#Parsing-user-inputs-via-input">Parsing user inputs via input()</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="#Returning-iterable-objects-instead-of-lists">Returning iterable objects instead of lists</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="#More-articles-about-Python-2-and-Python-3">More articles about Python 2 and Python 3</a></p></li>
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<h2 id="Returning-iterable-objects-instead-of-lists">Returning iterable objects instead of lists<a class="anchor-link" href="#Returning-iterable-objects-instead-of-lists">&#182;</a></h2>
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<p>As we have already seen in the <a href="#xrange"><code>xrange</code></a> section, some functions and methods return iterable objects in Python 3 now - instead of lists in Python 2.</p>
<p>Since we usually iterate over those only once anyway, I think this change makes a lot of sense to save memory. However, it is also possible - in contrast to generators - to iterate over those multiple times if needed, it is aonly not so efficient.</p>
<p>And for those cases where we really need the <code>list</code>-objects, we can simply convert the iterable object into a <code>list</code> via the <code>list()</code> function.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">&#39;Python&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">python_version</span><span class="p">()</span>
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<p><strong>Some more commonly used functions and methods that don't return lists anymore in Python 3:</strong></p>
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<li><p><code>zip()</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>map()</code></p></li>
<li><p><code>filter()</code></p></li>
<li><p>dictionary's <code>.keys()</code> method</p></li>
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<h2 id="More-articles-about-Python-2-and-Python-3">More articles about Python 2 and Python 3<a class="anchor-link" href="#More-articles-about-Python-2-and-Python-3">&#182;</a></h2>
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