Comprehension vs map() — readability

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PEP 8 and the Python community generally prefer list comprehensions over map() for simple transformations because the intent is immediately clear without needing to parse a lambda. [x * 2 for x in items] is more readable than list(map(lambda x: x * 2, items)). map() does have a use case: when you already have a named function to apply, map(str, nums) is cleaner than [str(x) for x in nums]. Use whichever is clearer in context.