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

[Georg Brandl]

Lie Ryan schrieb:
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> 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
> 
> I hate it. It mixes map/filter style and comprehension style; and the
> fact it does so in a single line only makes it worse. Not that it would
> be any better in two lines.

Taking this further, using only map/filter style like this

filter(pred, map(f, seq))

takes two steps. Why is it so bad that doing it in a listcomp

(el for el in (f(y) for y in seq) if el > 2)

takes two steps as well?

Georg

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