[Python-Dev] parsers and compilers for 2.0 (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 19:01:54 -0400

Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>:

> Last I checked, list comprehensions hadn't been accepted. I think > there's at least one more debate waiting there...

Check again, they're already checked in. The implementation may change later, but the syntax has been decided (by Guido): [(x, y) for y in something for x in somewhere if y in x]

Damn. That's unfortunate. With all due respect to the BDFL, I've come to believe that having special syntax for this (rather than constructor functions a la zip()) is a bad mistake. I predict it's going to come back to bite us hard in the future.

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