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Combining list functions

Combining list functions - Python Tutorial

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Combining list functions

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- [Instructor] We've seen so far in previous videos some of Python's numerous ways of working with lists and other iterables, their syntax and some examples of how they might be used in a code base. These concepts are certainly very powerful on their own, and each contributes a great deal towards simplifying and increasing readability in our code. The really exciting part, however, is that these methods can all be combined to give us an incredible amount of functionality. In this video we're going to walk through an example and how we can do this. The example we're going to look at is this. Let's say we have a list of employee data, each represented by a dictionary with names, salary, and job title entries. In the wild there's all sorts of interesting information that can be deduced from data sets like this, and we're going to examine a way that we can discover such information using the functional methods we've learned in…

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