[Python-3000] Parallel iteration syntax

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 29 04:54:00 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

>   for (x in A, y in B):
> 
> could just as well be meant as a shortcut for
> 
>   for x in A:
>     for y in B:

Well, the parens around the whole thing make it
look like a single tuple to me. But that could
just be because I already know what it's supposed
to mean.

Ultimately it would be something you just have
to learn, like the meaning of zip().

--
Greg


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