[Python-ideas] Assignments in list/generator expressions

[Eugene Toder]

> Uh, that's hardly strange considering that Python doesn't have local
> assignments in expressions anywhere.

Well, depending on your definition of "assignments in expression" you
can say that Haskell doesn't have them either.
Or you can say that Python has them since list comprehension was
introduced -- for x in xs is an assignment to x. In fact, I'm reminded
that local assignment in list comprehension is easily emulated with
for:

ys = [y for x in xs for y in [f(x)] if y]

Eugene