Oct. 20, 2003
2:30 p.m.
We are indeed sure (sadly) that list comprehensions leak control variable names.
But they shouldn't. It can be fixed by renaming them (e.g. numeric names with a leading dot).
We can hardly be sure of what iterator comprehensions would be defined to do, given they don't exist, but surely we can HOPE that in an ideal world where iterator comprehensions were part of Python they would not be similarly leaky:-).
It's highly likely that the implementation will have to create a generator function under the hood, so they will be safely contained in that frame. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)