[Python-Dev] listcomps vs. for loops

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> I don't recall what I said then.  Did I say it was a feature that
>
>   L = [x for x in R]
>   print x
>
> would print the last item of R?

A problem with such code irrespective of anything else is that it
fails when R is empty.

Cheers,
mwh

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