[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Tue Oct 21 19:42:20 EDT 2003
> FWIW, that's enough to switch my vote for generator expressions from
> -0 to +0.
Thanks for the support! I value your judgement.
> If they work this way then there is essentially no extra
> complexity in the language. It's important to look at things from
> the perspective of a new Python programmer, I think.
>
> Another nice thing is that we have tuple and dict comprehensions
> for free:
>
> tuple(x for x in S)
> dict((k, v) for k, v in S)
> Set(x for x in S)
Yes, this is nice.
> Aside from the bit of syntactic sugar, everything is nice an
> regular.
Exactly. We should thank Peter Norvig for starting this discussion!
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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