[Python-Dev] Features for Python 2.0

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:52:39 +0200


guido wrote:

>   [x for x in seq]
>   [x+y for x in seq1 for y in seq2]
>   [x for x in seq if pred(x)]
>   [x, x*2 for x in seq]

stupid question: does the last one mean that a python parser has
to stack an infinite number of tokens before it can figure out if it
has a list or a list comprehension?

did Python just turn into something that is much harder to parse?

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