[Python-Dev] List comprehensions

[Paul Prescod]

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
> 
> ...
>
> Is it really necessary to have all the "code" inside the square
> brackets ?

That's what a list comprehension is! Check the defacto PEP:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/listcomp/

I take it you are against list comprehensions.
 
> I always thought of list comprehension as a fast way to
> just throw together a list, not as a way to "program" the
> list contents. IMHO, that should be done using explicit
> statements in the way Skip describes above.
> 
> I would be completely satisfied with e.g. [0..10], [0..10:2]
> and [10..0].

Those are not list comprehensions but "range literals." Actually, the
syntax we are using is [0:10], [0:10:2], [10:0]. I prefer dotdot, but
Guido chose the colon a decade ago.

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