[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 289 - Generator Expressions - Let's MoveForward

[David Eppstein]

In article <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCAEPOKJAB.tim.one at comcast.net>,
 "Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> wrote:

> > Personally, I'd only like to see generator expressions added to Python
> > if they can allow list comprehensions to be deprecated -- to avoid
> > language clutter.
> 
> Listcomps can be deprecated, although not all existing uses of listcomps
> will translate directly into genexps.

Not all?  When would [listcomp] ever not be replaceable by list(gencomp)?

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science