[Python-ideas] Fwd: unpacking generalisations for list comprehension

[Paul Moore]

On 13 October 2016 at 15:32, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> Steven, please. You seemed to struggle to understand the notion of the
> [*....] construct and many people (not just me) here tried their best to
> explain their intuition to you.

And yet, the fact that it's hard to explain your intuition to others
(Steven is not the only one who's finding this hard to follow) surely
implies that it's merely that - personal intuition - and not universal
understanding.

The *whole point* here is that not everyone understands the proposed
notation the way the proposers do, and it's *hard to explain* to those
people. Blaming the people who don't understand does not support the
position that this notation should be added to the language. Rather,
it reinforces the idea that the new proposal is hard to teach (and
consequently, it may be a bad idea for Python).

Paul