[Python-Dev] For/while/if statements/comprehension/generator expressions unification

[Josiah Carlson]

Alexander,

The essence of what you have proposed has been proposed (multiple times) before,
and I seem to remember it was shot down.

The below functions offer the equivalent of list comprehensions with a
final post-processing step.

def cross(*args):
    if len(args) == 1:
        for i in args[0]:
            yield i
    elif len(args) == 2:
        for i in args[0]:
            for j in args[1]:
                yield i,j
    else:
        for i in args[0]:
            for j in cross(*args[1:]):
                yield (i,) + j

def cross_with_predicate(*args, **kwargs):
    if not 'pred' in kwargs:
        for i in cross(*args):
            yield i
    pred = kwargs['pred']
    if len(args) > 1:
        for i in cross(*args):
            if pred(*i):
                yield i
    else:
        for i in cross(*args):
            if pred(i):
                yield i

Feel free to use that code and/or modify it to your heart's content (be
careful of attempting to simplify cross, .

 - Josiah


Alexander Myodov <maa_public at sinn.ru> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   Well, we have "for", "while" and "if". We also have statements,
>   list generator expressions and list comprehensions. In
>   comprehensions we have the opportunity to use several for-s and in a
>   same expression (for i in range (0, 640) for j in range (0, 640)),
>   in loops we cannot; in comprehensions, we can use if-s to filter the
>   items; in loops, we cannot, and we have to write an inner comparison instead.
> 
>   My opinion is that in so smart language as Python is, it would be
>   great to have them generalized, so that the features available in
>   list comprehensions should be available in statements, vice versa.
>   All three statements (for/while/if) could be joined
>   together into a single common one, where any of these could be
>   combined and used multiple times (but for the cases when a
>   "else"/"elif" etc causes are required, old-school one-statements
>   should be left); and for such common expressions, they should be
>   equal for both loop statements and list comprehensions/generator
>   expressions.
>   That is, the following loops should be possible:
>   -------
>   # This gives us some sugar to get rid of unnecessary indentations
>   for x in range (0, 640) for y in range (0, 480):
>   -------
>   for x in range (0, 640) if should_handle_this_column(x) \
>   for y in range (0, 480) if should_handle_this_row(y):
>   -------
>   for nX, nY in (
>      f(x), f(y)
>      for x in range (0, 640) if should_handle_this_column(x)
>      for y in range (0, 480) if should_handle_this_row(y)
>      ):
>   -------
>   for x in range (0, 640) for y in range (0, 480) while(!timeout()):
>   -------
>   for x in range (0, 640) while(!timeout_pos_in_row()) for y in range (0, 480)
> while(!timeout_rows()):
>   -------
>   # And the latest and the hugest one:
>   for x in range (0, 640) if should_handle_this_column(x) while(!timeout_pos_in_row()) \
>   for y in range (0, 480) if should_handle_this_row(y) while(!timeout_rows() :
>   -------
>   # And almost the same as generator expression:
>   for x, y in (
>      f(x), f(y)
>      for x in range (0, 640) if should_handle_this_column(x) while(!timeout_pos_in_row())
>      for y in range (0, 480) if should_handle_this_row(y) while(!timeout_rows()
>      )
>   -------
> 
>   Hope I didn't miss something important...
> 
> -- 
> With best regards,
>  Alexander                          mailto:maa_public at sinn.ru
> 
> 
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