[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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