[Python-ideas] PEP-3150

[Carl M. Johnson]

Can we start a new thread just for discussion of PEP-3150? I
personally don't like any of the proposals to add assignment to list
comprehensions/generator expressions and I think that no matter how
it's spelt the idea is a misfeature since there's no need to cram more
info into a one-liner list comp/gen ex, but I do find the given-clause
very interesting and potentially useful. In terms of positives for the
feature, assignment in a list comp/gen ex has the potential to save a
few characters and maybe be more readable (although I haven't seen any
proposal that strikes me as more readable yet), but PEP-3150 has the
four different benefits listed previously by Nick, most notably that
it creates a temporary namespace (a honking great idea!). So, it
strikes me that the two issues are different enough that it might be
useful to separate the discussions out.