Generator Comprehensions
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon Jul 9 19:57:47 EDT 2018
Based on feedback from people annoyed at having to write "comprehensions
and generator expressions" to refer to what ought to be a single concept,
Guido has given the thumbs up for a documentation change to start
referring to "generator comprehensions".
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-July/154554.html
This now combines four related syntax under one umbrella term:
Comprehension:
- list comprehension [expr for x in values]
- set comprehension {expr for x in values}
- dict comprehension {key:value for x in values}
- generator comprehension (expr for x in values)
a.k.a. generator expression
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Steven D'Aprano
"Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing
it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson
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