Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

[sjdevnull at yahoo.com]

On Feb 18, 11:15 am, Steve Howell <showel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>     def print_numbers()
>         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|
>             [n * n, n * n * n]
>         }.reject { |square, cube|
>             square == 25 || cube == 64
>         }.map { |square, cube|
>             cube
>         }.each { |n|
>             puts n
>         }
>     end
>
> IMHO there is no reason that I should have to name the content of each
> of those four blocks of code, nor should I have to introduce the
> "lambda" keyword.

You could do it without intermediate names or lambdas in Python as:
def print_numbers():
    for i in [ cube for (square, cube) in
                         [(n*n, n*n*n) for n in [1,2,3,4,5,6]]
               if square!=25 and cube!=64 ]:
        print i

But frankly, although there's no reason that you _have_ to name the
content at each step, I find it a lot more readable if you do:

def print_numbers():
    tuples = [(n*n, n*n*n) for n in (1,2,3,4,5,6)]
    filtered = [ cube for (square, cube) in tuples if square!=25 and
cube!=64 ]
    for f in filtered:
        print f