list comprehensions value assignment syntax error

[Sean Ross]

you could try:

L = [chr(i) for i in range(256)]

this should work so long as len(L) == 256 before this assignment statement



"Gerrit Holl" <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to assign to a list item using list comprehensions, but this
> raises a SyntaxError:
>
> >>> [l[i] = chr(i) for i in range(256)]
>    File "<stdin>", line 1
>        [l[i] = chr(i) for i in range(256)]
>              ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> Why?
>
> Do I really have to abandon list comprehensions or do this?:
>
> >>> [l.__setitem__(i, chr(i)) for i in range(256)]
>
> yours,
> Gerrit.
>
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