is list comprehension necessary?

[Aahz]

In article <4cc701e7$0$1606$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net>,
John Nagle  <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>
>Python isn't a functional language.  It has some minimal functional
>capabilities, and there's a lobby that would like more.  So far, that's
>mostly been resisted.  Attempts to allow multiline lambdas have been
>averted.  The weird "functional if" syntax additions were a cave-in to
>the functional crowd, and may have been a mistake.

Did you actually read the PEP explanation for *why* Guido decided to add
conditional expressions?
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