[Python-Dev] PEP 289 - Generator Expressions - Let's Move Forward

[Greg Ewing]

Samuele Pedroni <pedronis at bluewin.ch>:

> "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do
> it."  of course this is the case for generator expressions and list
> comprehsensions because they are separated by performance
> characteristics and somehow by the fact that one directly produces a
> list. I suspect that we have to learn to live with the fact that
> they are distinguished by (just) that, both a nuisance (sometimes
> people don't want to bother to choose) and a feature.

I just had a thought.

What if generator expressions were allowed *only* as a
parameter to a function call?

Would that help avoid leading people into the trap of
using them where they're not appropriate?

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