Odd behaviour with list comprehension

[Micah Cowan]

"Jerry Hill" <malaclypse2 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Ken Pu <kenpuca.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Is there a way for me keep the iterating variable in list
>>  comprehension local to the list comprehension?
>
> Kind of.  You can use a generator expression instead of a list
> comprehension, and those don't leak their internal variables into the
> enclosing scope:

Whoa, that's cool. I didn't even think to try that, just assuming it
would do the same.

Though now that I think about it, I don't see how it possibly could,
since it just evaluates to an object that you could pass around, and
return, using it the same way elsewhere.

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