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[Python-Dev] PEP 289: Generator Expressions (second draft)

Jeremy Fincher fincher.8 at osu.edu
Wed Oct 22 05:45:48 EDT 2003 
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:57 am, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Accordingly, generator expressions are expected to partially eliminate
> the need for reduce() which is notorious for its lack of clarity. And,
> there are additional speed and clarity benefits from writing expressions
> directly instead of using lambda.

I probably missed it in this monster of a thread, but how do generator 
expressions do this?  It seems that they'd only make reduce more efficient, 
but it would still be just as needed as before.

Jeremy
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