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

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Thu Dec 3 11:47:23 EST 2015 
On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:15:30 +0000, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> 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.

Actually, it looks like Random832 is right.  The docs for
ast.literal_eval say "a Python literal or container display".

Which also means we are using the term 'display' inconsistently,
since literal_eval will not eval a comprehension.

--David
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