PEP scepticism

[Andrew Dalke]

Jason F. McBrayer wrote:
>>>>>> "RS" == Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:
>RS> There is limit after which more explanation is worse than less:
>
>RS> processed_list = []
>RS> for i in old_list:
>RS>   processed_list.append(func(i))
>
>RS> adds nothing but noise, while:
>
>In this trivial case, probably not, but...

A month or so I posted an example where I explained why I liked
list comprehensions

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-May/042951.html

It boils down to that this trivial case occurs very frequently,
so I put the three lines or so into a function.  But I couldn't
think of a good function name.  By using list comprehensions
I traded off some strange syntax for the ability to describe
everything in one place - more legibility in the long run.

So my coding recommendation is to use list comprehensions solely
for that trivial case, and use functions for more complex ones.

                    Andrew