list comprehensions whats happening here

[Greg Ewing]

Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> 
> At 22:14 13/04/01 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> >[[0,j] for j in ('a','b','c')] is much cleaner and faster.  Methinks
> >turning a constant into a pseudovariable is the wrong way to go.
> 
> I apologize for wasting bandwidth
> when a *much* better idiom is already available.

It is, however, an interesting way of introducing a
"local variable" binding in the middle of a list
comprehension.

Not that I'd recommend it as a clear programming
practice, though!

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