Oct. 20, 2003
7:44 a.m.
On Monday 20 October 2003 02:08 am, Greg Ewing wrote:
"Phillip J. Eby" <pje@telecommunity.com>:
If you look at it this way, then you can consider [x for x in S] to be shorthand syntax for list(x for x in S), as they would both produce the same result. However, IIRC, the current listcomp implementation actually binds 'x' in the current local namespace, whereas the generator version would not.
Are we sure about that?
We are indeed sure (sadly) that list comprehensions leak control variable names. 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:-). Alex