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

Trent Mick trentm@ActiveState.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 18:25:18 -0700

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:29:14PM +0000, Finn Bock wrote:

[Thomas Wouters]

>[(x, y) for y in something for x in somewhere if y in x] > >The parentheses around the leftmost expression are mandatory. It's currently >implemented something like this: > >L = [] >x = [].append >for y in something: > for x in somewhere: > if y in x: > x((x, y)) >del x Thank you for the fine example. At least I now think that know what the feature is about.

Maybe that example should get in the docs for list comprehensions.

Trent

-- Trent Mick TrentM@ActiveState.com