At 10:15 AM 10/17/03 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
But, indexing does stretch quite far in the current Python syntax and semantics (in Python's *pragmatics* you're supposed to use it far more restrainedly).
Which is why I didn't like the 'sum[x for x in S]' notation much. Let's look for an in-line generator notation instead. I like
sum((yield x for x in S))
but perhaps we can make this work:
sum(x for x in S)
Offhand, it seems like the grammar might be rather tricky, but it actually does seem more Pythonic than the "yield" syntax, and it retroactively makes listcomps shorthand for 'list(x for x in s)'. However, if gencomps use this syntax, then what does: for x in y*2 for y in z if y<20: ... mean? ;) It's a little clearer with parentheses, of course, so perhaps they should be required: for x in (y*2 for y in z if y<20): ... It would be more efficient to code that stuff inline in the loop, if the gencomp creates another frame, but it *looks* more efficient to put it in the for statement. But maybe I worry too much, since you could slap a listcomp in a for loop now, and I've never even thought of doing so.