Alan Gauld wrote:
In fact I guess you could say that the new definition of a list
comprehension is
[ generator expression]
Well, not if sure if you meant that literally, but
it's certainly not: that would be a list whose one
item was a generator expression:
<code>
squares = (x * x for x in range (10))
l = [squares]
print len (l)
print l[0]
</code>
But a list comp *is* (in effect) the same as:
<code>
squares = (x * x for x in range (10))
l = list (squares)
print len (l)
print l[0]
</code>
TJG
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