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

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Thu Dec 3 11:15:30 EST 2015 
On 2015-12-03 15:09, Random832 wrote:
> On 2015-12-03, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>> Who came up with the word 'display' and what does it have going for
>> it that I have missed?  Right now I think its chief virtue is that
>> it is a meaningless noun.  (But not meaningless enough, as I
>> associate displays with output, not construction).
>
> In a recent discussion it seemed like people mainly use it
> because they don't like using "literal" for things other than
> single token constants.  In most other languages' contexts the
> equivalent thing would be called a literal.
>
"Literals" also tend to be constants, or be constructed out of
constants.

A list comprehension can contain functions, etc.

>> I think that
>>
>>     6.2.4 Constructing lists, sets and dictionaries
>>
>> would be a much more useful title, and
>>
>>     6.2.4 Constructing lists, sets and dictionaries -- explicitly or through the use of comprehensions
>
> I don't like the idea of calling it "explicit construction".
> Explicit construction to me means the actual use of a call to the
> constructor function.
>
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