Explanation of how nested list comprehension works?

Question

I have no problem for understanding this:

a = [1,2,3,4]
b = [x for x in a]

I thought that was all, but then I found this snippet:

Answer 1

if a = [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]], then if we unroll that list comp, we get:

      +----------------a------------------+ 
      | +--xs---+ , +--xs---+ , +--xs---+ | for xs in a
      | | x , x |   | x , x |   | x , x | | for x in xs
a  =  [ [ 1 , 2 ] , [ 3 , 4 ] , [ 5 , 6 ] ]
b  =  [ x for xs in a for x in xs ] == [1,2,3,4,5,6] #a list of just the "x"s