[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Fri Oct 17 14:09:03 EDT 2003
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > but perhaps we can make this work:
> >
> > sum(x for x in S)
[Shane Holloway]
> Being able to use generator compressions as an expression would be
> useful. In that case, I assume the following would be possible as well:
>
> mygenerator = x for x in S
>
> for y in x for x in S:
> print y
>
> return x for x in S
You'd probably have to add extra parentheses around (x for x in S) to
help the poor parser (and the human reader).
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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