list comprehensions

Dave Benjamin ramen at lackingtalent.com
Mon Apr 12 18:35:16 EDT 2004


In article <c56n0j$9r8$1 at panix1.panix.com>, Aahz wrote:
> In article <yjZcc.42823$Pk3.9547 at pd7tw1no>,
> Elaine Jackson <elainejackson7355 at home.com> wrote:
>>
>>List comprehensions don't work the way you intuitively expect them
>>to work. I realize many people have no intuitions about how list
>>comprehensions 'should' work, so if you recognize yourself in this
>>description, feel free to go back to whatever you were doing before. If
>>you're still here, though, I invite you to consider the following
>>definition:
> 
> Short response: don't write complex listcomps.

Would you consider a 2D loop too complex for a listcomp?

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