[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-510384 ] Separate Scope for List Comprehensions

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Bugs item #510384, was opened at 2002-01-29 14:13
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Separate Scope for List Comprehensions

Initial Comment:
The variables in a list comprehension should not be in 
the enclosing scope.

i=10
temp = [str(i) for i in range(5)]
print i

Should print 10 instead of 4.

Implement the above as:

i=10
def _listcomp():
    for i in range(5):
        yield str(i)
temp = list(_listcomp())
print i

Note, I timed the difference between the existing and 
proposals implementations and found only a 4% decrease 
in speed.

In case someone is already relying on the list 
comprehension variables being in the local scope, a 
deprecation warning or from __future__ in warranted.

Also note, this implementation leaves open the 
possibility of creating generator comprehensions so 
that temp=[yield str(i) for i in range(5)] creates the 
same code as above except that the final 'list' 
coercion is eliminated:  temp=_listcomp



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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2002-01-30 07:52

Message:
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This is Guido; I can't log in here on the road.

I believe this has been fixed in Python 2.2, and possibly 
in 2.1.2.  Can you check that?

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