[Python-Dev] Tricky way of of creating a generator via a comprehension expression (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Nov 22 23:44:58 EST 2017


Ivan Levkivskyi wrote:

The key idea is that neither comprehensions nor generator expressions should create a function scope surrounding the expr

I don't see how you can avoid an implicit function scope in the case of a generator expression, though. And I can't see how to make yield in a generator expression do anything sensible.

Consider this:

def g():
   return ((yield i) for i in range(10))

Presumably the yield should turn g into a generator, but... then what? My brain is hurting trying to figure out what it should do.

-- Greg



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