Remember those advanced list tricks? Let’s use them to process inventory.



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🗂 MINI PROJECT: Inventory Grid Processor
Goal:
Process a 2D list of item quantities from a warehouse grid.

What You’ll Learn:
✅ Create and manipulate matrix data
✅ Flatten and filter with nested comprehensions
✅ Rotate rows ↔ columns with zip(*matrix)
✅ Highlight low-stock items with dynamic thresholds

Tech Concepts:

  • Nested list comprehensions
  • * unpacking
  • zip(*matrix) to transpose
  • Basic filtering + totals

Sample Task:

📌 Bonus Challenge:
Detect which rows or columns are all zero — and flag them for restocking.

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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Nova