[Python-Dev] Features for Python 2.0

[Eric S. Raymond]

Guido van Rossum <guido@beopen.com>:
> > I would also like to volunteer to repeat the "simultaneous loop" syntax
> > experiment with list comprehensions, i.e. see whether what's being
> > proposed lines up with people's pre-existing intuitions.
> 
> Please do!
> 
> Though I have no doubt of the outcome:
> 
>   [x+y for x in [10, 20, 30] for y in [1, 2, 3]]
> 
> will be almost universally understood to mean
> 
>   [11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33].

This is my expectation as well.
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