extended list comprehensions

[Raymond Hettinger]

"F. Jamitzky" <fxj at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f32195af.0205261316.2482d4ac at posting.google.com...
> It would be great to have something like a list comprehension for the
> reduce function. It would work in the same way as the comprehension
> for the map function, which is:
>
> [foo(x) for x in xs]      <-is the same as->       map(foo,xs)
>
> and maybe it could be written as:
>
> {y=y+x for x in xs}      <-would be->         reduce(operator.add,xs)

Perhaps this syntax would be cleaner:

for x in xs: y=y+x



Raymond Hettinger