[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Oct 22 01:38:26 EDT 2003


Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

> So, do you want *all* free variables to be passed using the
> default-argument trick (even globals and builtins), or only those that
> correspond to variables in the immediately outer scope, or only those
> corresponding to function scopes (as opposed to globals)?

And what about

  foo = (f(x) for x in stuff)
  def f(x):
    ...
  for blarg in foo:
    ...

?

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