iterator expression - please explain

[Helmut Jarausch]

Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> 
> 
>>myfun(x^2 for x in xrange(10))
> 
> 	...
> 
>>I expected the sequence  0,1,4,9,....
>>What am I missing and what's going on here?
> 
> 
> ^ is the bitwise xor operator.  You wanted **.  (Although what you wrote
> above isn't legal anyway.)
> 
Many thanks for pointing out that silly mistake.
But why isn't it legal?
By the way, the corrected version (with **)  works just fine (with the 
CVS version of Python from the weekend or today)

Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany