Why map(print, a_list) doesn't work?

Question

For a normal function, map works well:

def increment(n):
    return n+1
l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
l = map(increment, l)
print l
>>> [2, 3, 4,         


        

Answer 1

The above answers work for Python 2, but not in Python 3 with the changes to both map and the print function.

The solution I've arrived at to achieve what I wanted map(print, lst) to do in Python 3 is to unpack the list inside of the print call.

lst = [1, 2, 3]
print(*lst, sep='\n')

Output:

1
2
3

You can find more detail around this in my answer to Use print inside lambda.