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

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Apr 30 18:28:12 EDT 2004

On 4/30/04 6:11 PM -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

Not all? When would [listcomp] ever not be replaceable by list(gencomp)? I dunno. I happen to like [listcomp] syntax over list(genexpr).

Oh, me too (and I'm getting a little irritated with writing dict([...]) so often instead of having a proper dictcomp syntax) but semantically I think they are the same.

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

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