extended list comprehensions

[Laura Creighton]

> It would be great to have something like a list comprehension for the
> reduce function. It would work in the same way as the comprehension
> for the map function, which is:
> 
> [foo(x) for x in xs]      <-is the same as->       map(foo,xs)
> 
> and maybe it could be written as:
> 
> {y=y+x for x in xs}      <-would be->         reduce(operator.add,xs)
> 
> what do the experts think about that ? 
> 
> ferdinand
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Laura Creighton