List Comprehension Syntax

[François Pinard]

[Peter Hansen]
> François Pinard wrote:

> >... for me at least, the greatest virtue of Python is that one can
> >write it legibly, and maintainability mainly results from legibility.

> I don't find the legibility of the carefully aligned version of
> that code to be higher than the simpler "indent the standard amount"
> version of the code.

That's the important point.  Write for legibility! :-)

> [...] same as how I used to waste time lining up the equals signs in
> initialization sections of my code.

Yes, this is often abused, with not much gain.  Agreed!

> (Wow... a simultaneous segue into both the tab war and the editor
> wars! I think I'd better leave now...)

We'll surely meet somewhere else, anyway! :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard