In written English, you can convey the same basic facts with a hundred different sentences. A good author will choose the one that best conveys emphasis and subtle gradations of meaning to the attentive reader.
Code is also written for humans to read, so the best written code will use all the available facilities of the language to convey meaning to the reader.
But between two books its just personal preference whether you agree with the choice the author/publisher made.
I can't say this is common practice, but a list comprehension is great when the iteration is simple and quickly becomes hard for a human to parse if you're doing anything slightly complex. If you need any complex logic, you have to use a for-loop. So -- when written by a developer with these perspectives -- a for-loop signals complicated iteration logic and a list comprehension signals simple iteration logic. But you could do either with both if you chose. So, it's a style choice that can be used to convey meaning.