How to multiply all integers inside list

Andre picture Andre · Oct 19, 2014 · Viewed 176.5k times · Source

Hello so I want to multiply the integers inside a list.

For example;

l = [1, 2, 3]
l = [1*2, 2*2, 3*2]

output:

l = [2, 4, 6]

So I was searching online and most of the answers were regarding multiply all the integers with each other such as:

[1*2*3]

Answer

APerson picture APerson · Oct 19, 2014

Try a list comprehension:

l = [x * 2 for x in l]

This goes through l, multiplying each element by two.

Of course, there's more than one way to do it. If you're into lambda functions and map, you can even do

l = map(lambda x: x * 2, l)

to apply the function lambda x: x * 2 to each element in l. This is equivalent to:

def timesTwo(x):
    return x * 2

l = map(timesTwo, l)

Note that map() returns a map object, not a list, so if you really need a list afterwards you can use the list() function afterwards, for instance:

l = list(map(timesTwo, l))

Thanks to Minyc510 in the comments for this clarification.