[Python-Dev] Re: Trinary Operators

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:20:14 -0500


Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com>:
> Eric> Yeeeouch.  And the proposed n-ary form is even worse.
> 
> On the other hand, we already have the problem with list comprehensions:
> 
>         [f(i) for i in range(n) if g(i)]
> 
> Here, every evaluation of f(i) is preceded by an evaluation of g(i).

Uh...but this is one of the reasons I never liked list comprehensions.
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