Dictionary Comprehension

[Aahz]

In article <7xsn6w9pad.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote:
>
>Also, if adding dict comprehensions really require "major hacking in
>the parser, the bytecode compiler, and the virtual machine", then IMO
>a code cleanup is needed that's much larger in scope than adding one
>feature.  Certainly no change to the VM should be needed at all, since
>the dict comprehension is equivalent to a for loop, and the compiler
>can generate the exact same code as the for loop would have.  The
>parser and compiler would need a patch, but I'd hope it wouldn't be
>"major hacking".

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.  But, in
practice, there is."  --Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

As it happens, though, part of the work planned for 2.3 is to start
doing some cleanup work.
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