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Isn't yield like a return?

A return in a list/dict/set comprehension makes no sense to me.

So, +1 on SyntaxError from me too.

Cheers.

Inasmuch as I get to opine, I'm +1 on SyntaxError. There is no behavior for that spelling that I would find intuitive or easy to explain to students. And as far as I can tell, the ONLY time anything has ever been spelled that way is in comments saying "look at this weird edge case behavior in Python."

On Nov 22, 2017 10:57 AM, "Jelle Zijlstra" <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com> wrote:

2017-11-22 9:58 GMT-08:00 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:

Wow, 44 messages in 4 hours. That must be some kind of record.

If/when there's an action item, can someone summarize for me?

The main disagreement seems to be about what this code should do:

g = \[(yield i) for i in range(3)\]

Currently, this makes \`g\` into a generator, not a list. Everybody seems to agree this is nonintuitive and should be changed.

One proposal is to make it so \`g\` gets assigned a list, and the \`yield\` happens in the enclosing scope (so the enclosing function would have to be a generator). This was the way things worked in Python 2, I believe.

Another proposal is to make this code a syntax error, because it's confusing either way. (For what it's worth, that would be my preference.)

There is related discussion about the semantics of list comprehensions versus calling list() on a generator expression, and of async semantics, but I don't think there's any clear point of action there.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/\~guido)

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