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[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Oct 17 13:15:21 EDT 2003 
> But, indexing does stretch quite
> far in the current Python syntax and semantics (in Python's
> *pragmatics* you're supposed to use it far more restrainedly).

Which is why I didn't like the 'sum[x for x in S]' notation much.
Let's look for an in-line generator notation instead.  I like

  sum((yield x for x in S))

but perhaps we can make this work:

  sum(x for x in S)

(Somebody posted a whole bunch of alternatives that were mostly
picking random delimiters; it didn't look like the right approach.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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