How to make a flat list out of a list of lists
Asked 07 September, 2021
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Is there a shortcut to make a simple list out of a list of lists in Python?

I can do it in a for loop, but is there some cool "one-liner"?

I tried it with functools.reduce():

from functools import reduce
l = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7], [8, 9]]
reduce(lambda x, y: x.extend(y), l)

But I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <lambda>
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'extend'

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