What do we gain from this? Three characters. I'm not sure how useful this would be. On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 9:29 PM David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:
Umm?!
items = (j for j in range(10) if j not in {2, 8})
We don't need a new keyword. Nor a tortured use of an old one.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 8:46 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas < python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
Another wild idea: Suppose that after a line that introduces a suite, including the final colon, you could write further lines on the same physical line, and this would be semantically equivalent to having them on separate lines with increasing indents, but a smaller indent than the following lines in the suite body. Example:
with open('file1') as f: with open('file2') as g: <do stuff>
Then you could write:
for i in range(0, 10): if i not in range(2, 8): <do stuff> # This is arguably slightly easier to read than having two separate lines, as it puts both aspects of a single concept ("what values of i do I loop over?") together. It also avoids a physical indentation level.
Rob Cliffe
On 29/06/2021 00:44, Richard Damon wrote:
This is more of a syntactic sugar than an actual new feature, but... Exactly, 'but' is the idea: a special keyword to be used in for statements to exclude values from the iterable.
E.g., when iterating over a generator:
> for i in range(0, 10) but (2, 8): would implicitly create a new generator comprehensively, as in: > for i in (j for j in range(0, 10) if j not in [2, 8]): It might not add such a feature to justify the definition of a but_stmt in python.gram, but it's fully compliant with Python's philosophy of concise, clear and elegant code.
#road to a programming natural language (jk) Wild idea, but could we avoid a new keyword by reusing one that can't go
On 6/28/21 5:40 PM, Max Shouman wrote: there, like except?
for i in range(0,10) except (2, 8):
don't know if it is actually worth it, but at least it doesn't add a new keyword.
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