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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 2 23:41:14 EDT 2004


"Russell E. Owen" <rowen at cesmail.net>:

> Personally, I'd only like to see generator expressions added to Python 
> if they can allow list comprehensions to be deprecated -- to avoid 
> language clutter.

That's possible in the sense that a list comprehension
can be written as list(generator_expression).

But it will still be necessary to decide whether to
wrap a list() around it.

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