Re: [Python-ideas] Accessing the result of comprehension's expression from the conditional

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:31:26 am Lie Ryan wrote:

You don't like lambda? Fine, define an external function first. Then you can write:

filter(pred, (f(x) for x in seq))

There's no violation of DRY, there's no redundancy, there's no lambda, there's no "y" variable needed. What's ugly about it?

I think its great and that it kills any justification for the proposal. tjr