stretching list comprehensions

[Simon Burton]

I was quite delighted when i found this:

>>> nums = [ x+y for x in range(10) for y in range(10) ]

Great! No more list of list joining shenanigans...

Shortly thereafter, i tried this:

>>> del y
>>> nums = [ x+y for x in range(y) for y in range(10) ]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'y' is not defined
>>> 

Well.. Is there an inherent reason why this could/should not be made to work?

Simon.