On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 1:51 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
28.02.18 16:06, Chris Angelico пише:
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 12:49 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
Other options:
g = (f(x) for x in range(5)) stuff = [[y, y] for y in g]
That's the same as the one-liner, but with the genexp broken out. Not sure it helps much as examples go?
It is more readable. But can't be used as an expression.
def g(): for x in range(5): y = f(x) yield [y, y] stuff = list(g)
You're not the first to mention this, but I thought it basically equivalent to the "expand into a loop" form. Is it really beneficial to expand it, not just into a loop, but into a generator function that contains a loop?
It is slightly faster (if the list is not too small). It doesn't leak a temporary variable after loop. And in many cases you don't need a list, an iterator would work as well. In these cases it is easy to just drop calling list().
Doesn't leak a temporary? In Python 3, the list comp won't leak anything, but the function is itself a temporary variable with permanent scope. You're right about the generator being sufficient at times, but honestly, if we're going to say "maybe you don't need the same result", then all syntax questions go out the window :D ChrisA