[Python-Dev] decorate-sort-undecorate

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Oct 16 01:16:23 EDT 2003


"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com>:

> IMO, it would really be better to have some kind of generator
> comprehension
> 
> Top(10, [yield humor(joke),joke for joke in jokes])

I like the *idea* of a generator comprehension, but I'm
not sure I like the [yield ...] syntax. It's a bit
idiomatic looking -- the [] still imply a list, even
though it's not building a list at all.

Maybe there should be a different kind of bracketing,
e.g.

  <humor(joke),joke for joke in jokes>

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