[Python-ideas] Tuple Comprehensions

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> Your proposed syntax for tuple comprehensions:
>
> (expr for x in iterable)
>
> Syntax already used for generator expressions:
>
> (expr for x in iterable)

More precisely, the parens are not part of the syntax for generator
expressions. But the above syntax is a valid, paren-enclosed, generator
expression; so the proposed syntax is indistinguishable from
already-valid syntax that means something else in existing code.

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