Please explain this code

Question

def cm():
return[lambda x:i*x for i in range(3)]
for m in cm():
print(m(1),end='')

In this code 'i' will have values 0,1 & 2. How 'x' will gets its value ?
Output of this code is: 222

Answer 1

Cant tell ya exactly how, but single stepping through it, it creates a list of 3 lambda functions and passes 1 to them. In the lambda, there are x and i variables. Watching them through each iteration I can assume that the 1 in m(1) refers to x's value, and since i is in range of 3, 2 would be the max. In each iteration x = 1 and i = 2.