[Python-ideas] list / array comprehensions extension

[Michael Foord]

On 15 December 2011 17:53, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Michael Foord wrote:
>
>> On 15 December 2011 17:35, Alexander Heger <python at 2sn.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Dear Masklinn,
>>>
>>> thanks for your suggested solution.
>>>
>>> I know all of these, but
>>> 1) it is not as elegant or short
>>> 2) why does unpacking not work syntactically the same as for the function
>>> parameters?
>>> It seems a natural extension that appears not to have a syntactic
>>> conflict.  If it is not even a necessity for consistency.
>>>
>>> So, the point is not that something like
>>> [0,*x,0,*y,0]
>>> can't be done in other ways, but that it can't be done in a neat way.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I quite like that (suggested) syntax.
>>
>
> So do I. But I question the need for it.
>
> +0.
>
>
Well, the new tuple unpacking syntax makes it easy to work with the head
and tail of a sequence:

    head, *rest = some_sequence
   *rest, tail = some_sequence

This syntax provides a corollary:

    some_sequence = (head, *rest)
    some_sequence = (*rest, tail)

Tuple unpacking like this being the equivalent of car and cdr, with the
corollary being the equivalent of cons. (Given my limited understanding of
these operations.)

Michael


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