Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Oct 18 06:57:03 CEST 2011

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Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> Your proposed syntax for tuple comprehensions:
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> (expr for x in iterable)
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> Syntax already used for generator expressions:
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> (expr for x in iterable)

More precisely, the parens are not part of the syntax for generator
expressions. But the above syntax is a valid, paren-enclosed, generator
expression; so the proposed syntax is indistinguishable from
already-valid syntax that means something else in existing code.

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