On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:46 PM, Matt Arcidy <marcidy@gmail.com> wrote:
From readability, the examples put forth have been to explain the advantage, with which I agree. However, i do not believe this scales well.
[(foo(x,y) as g)*(bar(y) as i) + g*foo(x,a) +baz(g,i) for x... for y...]
This definitely looks hard to read. Let's compare it to: lst = [] for x in something: for y in other_thing: g = f(x, y) i = bar(y) lst.append(g*foo(x,a) + baz(g,i)) Obviously the one-liner is shorter, but the full loop looks a heck of a lot more readable to me. I was thinking of an example closer to the PEP like this: [((my_object.calculate_the_quantity(quant1, vect2, arr3) as x), log(x)) for quant1 in quants] Just one "as" clause, but a long enough expression I wouldn't want to repeat it. I still feel this suffers in readability compared to the existing option of (even as a non-unrolled comprehension): [(x, log(x)) for x in (my_object.calculate_the_quantity(quant1, vect2, arr3) for quant1 in quants)] Sure, again we save a couple characters under the PEP, but readability feels harmed not helped. And most likely this is another thing better spelled as a regular loop. -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.