[Python-ideas] Inline assignments using "given" clauses

[Rhodri James]

On 14/05/18 10:17, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
>> Because you never _need_ to use an assignment expression to write a
>> listcomp/genexp.
> 
> This whole discussion started because someone wanted a way
> to bind a temporary result for use *within* a comprehension.

I still don't find that argument compelling.  If you have a sufficiently 
complicated comprehension that you need a temporary result bound, IMHO 
you are well on the way to (if not far past) the point where converting 
it into a more traditional for-loop will be much clearer.  I'm not sure 
we should be encouraging people to write less clear code.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd