[Python-Dev] Re: comprehension abbreviation (was: Adding any() andall())

[Terry Reedy]

"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message 
news:d2asg9$3tf$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> Having to write
>
>     [x for x in seq]
>
> to produce a copy of a list doesn't seem that outrageous to me,

Except for (currently) leaving the last value of sequence bound to 'x' 
after making the copy, how is the above different from list(seq)?

TJR