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[Python-Dev] Python Language Reference has no mention of list comprehensions

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Dec 3 09:04:09 EST 2015 
On 03.12.2015 14:37, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 3 December 2015 at 12:51, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>> Intentional or Oversight?
> 
> Hard to find :-)
> 
> https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#displays-for-lists-sets-and-dictionaries
> 
> I went via "Atoms" in the expression section, then followed the links
> in the actual grammar spec.

Strange that the doc search facility doesn't find this:

    https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=comprehension

The human readable documentation is in the tutorial:

    https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions

(this is found by the doc search)

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