Oct. 19, 2003
8:08 p.m.
"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? Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+