[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 289 - Generator Expressions (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 289 - Generator Expressions - Let's MoveForward

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Apr 30 18:09:23 EDT 2004

In article <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCAEPOKJAB.tim.one at comcast.net>, "Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:

> Personally, I'd only like to see generator expressions added to Python > if they can allow list comprehensions to be deprecated -- to avoid > language clutter.

Listcomps can be deprecated, although not all existing uses of listcomps will translate directly into genexps.

Not all? When would [listcomp] ever not be replaceable by list(gencomp)?

-- David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science

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