[Python-ideas] Accessing the result of comprehension's expression from the conditional

[Terry Reedy]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:31:26 am Lie Ryan wrote:

> You don't like lambda? Fine, define an external function first. Then you 
> can write:
> 
> filter(pred, (f(x) for x in seq))
> 
> There's no violation of DRY, there's no redundancy, there's no lambda, 
> there's no "y" variable needed. What's ugly about it?

I think its great and that it kills any justification for the proposal.

tjr