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Hi everyone,
I’m working on a Python project where I need to filter and transform a list of numbers. I want to create a new list that contains the squares of all even numbers from the original list. However, my current code is not working as expected.

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

# Attempt to use list comprehension to filter and square even numbers
squared_evens = [x**2 for x in numbers if x % 2 != 0]

print(squared_evens)

The output of the code is [1, 9, 25, 49, 81], but I expected it to be [4, 16, 36, 64, 100].
Why is my list comprehension not working correctly?
How can I fix it to get the squares of even numbers?
Thanks in advance for your help!

The remainder of even numbers divided by 2 == 0

You're filtering to keep the _odd_ numbers, not the even ones.

Having a distracted day?

nums = [x for x in range(11) if x != 0]        
evens = [x for x in nums if x % 2 == 0]
odds = [x for x in nums if x % 2 != 0]