[Python-Dev] PEP 3142: Add a "while" clause to generator expressions

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Gerald Britton
<gerald.britton at gmail.com>wrote:

>    prime = (p for p in sieve() while p < 1000)
>    prime = takewhile(lamda p:p<1000, sieve())
>

I'm pretty sure the extra cost of evaluating the lambda at each step is tiny
compared to the cost of the sieve, so I don't you can make a convincing
argument on performance.

Also, you know the latter is actually fewer characters, right? :-)

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