[Python-Dev] listcomps vs. for loops
Michael Hudson
mwh at python.net
Tue Oct 21 07:41:00 EDT 2003
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
> I don't recall what I said then. Did I say it was a feature that
>
> L = [x for x in R]
> print x
>
> would print the last item of R?
A problem with such code irrespective of anything else is that it
fails when R is empty.
Cheers,
mwh
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