Making the case for "typed" lists/iterators in python

[Ben Finney]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> When something goes amiss and I want to debug the problem, I often 
> transform that into:
>
>     temp = [Foo(x) for x in bunch_of_x_thingies]
>     logger.debug(temp)
>     return temp
>
> It would be convenient to be able to get at and log the intermediate 
> value without having to pull it out to an explicit temporary.

What's wrong with that though?

You're not “pulling it out to” anything; you're binding a name to the
value in order to do several things with it. Exactly what you say you
want to do. It's explicit and clear.

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Ben Finney