Solution 4: Is this the clever way that was mentioned or will approaching a solution this way cause issues later?

Question

Kenneth mentioned a clever way to complete this task when he was giving his solution. I get the correct answer using code this way, but I just want to make sure that I'm not getting myself caught up in a gacha. 
```python
for person in BIRTHDAYS:
    name = person[0]
    age = person[3]
    if person[2] and age <= 10:
        print(name, ' '(age))
```
For reference, here is the solution provided:
```python
for person in BIRTHDAYS:
    name = person[0]
    age = person[-1]
    celebrates = person[-2]
   if celebrates and age <= 10:
        stars = ' '
        for star in range(age):
            stars += '*'
        print(name, stars)
```

Steven Parker · Accepted Answer

That seems quite safe, but that's probably only part of what Kenneth was thinking of.
He was likely imagining a list comprehension, perhaps like this:
python
for each in [p[0]+'  '+'*'*p[-1] for p in BIRTHDAYS if p[-2] and p[-1] < 10]:
    print(each)

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Solution 4: Is this the clever way that was mentioned or will approaching a solution this way cause issues later?

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Steven Parker

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