[Python-ideas] Tuple Comprehensions

[Ben Finney]

Karthick Sankarachary
<karthick.sankarachary at gmail.com> writes:

> To address both of the above, I'd like to introduce tuple
> comprehensions, which would work like so:
>
> >>> freshfruit = ['  banana', '  loganberry ', 'passion fruit  ']
> >>> (weapon.strip() for weapon in freshfruit)
> ('banana', 'loganberry', 'passion fruit')
> >>> import operator
> >>> (operator.concat(_, weapon.strip()) for weapon in freshfruit)
> 'bananaloganberrypassion fruit'
>
> As you can see, we use parenthesis instead of square brackets around
> the comprehension.

That's already valid syntax. The parentheses are used around generator
expressions in existing code.

Since that's the case, why not just:

    tuple(weapon.strip() for weapon in freshfruit)

if you want the generator expression turned into a tuple?

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Ben Finney