[Python-ideas] About list comprehension syntax

[Greg Ewing]

Arnaud Delobelle wrote:

> Why not just drop the 'x for' at the start of a 'filter  
> comprehension' (or generator expression)?  Thus (3) could be written  
> more simply as:
> 
> (3') [x in L if p(x)]

It would be very nice, but could be difficult to parse,
because there's no clue you're not looking at a normal
list constructor until you get to the 'if'.

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