By #1 "should" be a 1-liner, I mean that I think a reasonable goal is to have a good syntax for this operation to be one line.
And for #3 I'm basing it also off Pep 8: "Compound statements (multiple statements on the same line) are generally discouraged."
Given that the proposed alternative isn't currently valid and #1 isn't 'bad' in any way other than being an extra line, I can understand not wanting to move this forward.
One last thing to consider is how this would work with filtering:
```
f(item) for item in lst if g(item)
```
saves even more space, as the #1 alternative would be
Do understand that Python also strives for explicitness on top of clarity which suggests trying to compress logic for the sake of saving a line or two isn't a goal if it doesn't help readability. I do get the desire for having an easy way to exhaust an iterator, but even with your desire for a generator expression syntax, you can still make it short with:
```
for _ in (f(item) for item in lst if g(item)): pass
```
That doesn't require any new syntax (which is a very "expensive" thing to do in Python as you have to update books for that sort of thing).
-Brett
```
for item in lst:
if g(item):
f(item)
```
However this advantage doesn't apply to if/else as the syntax becomes ambiguous:
```
f(item) for item in lst if g else h
# could mean:
[f(item) for item in lst] if g else h
# or
[f(item) for item in lst if g else h]
```
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