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

It can be written like this

result = []
for xs in a:
    for x in xs:
        result.append(x)

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