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[A. Lloyd Flanagan]

Jack Diederich <jack at performancedrivers.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1042672181.22990.python-list at python.org>...

> using a list comprehension or zip().  Comprehensions always
> hurt readability (ALWAYS), and we don't need the speedup
> here so we do it explicitly.

Personally, I find list comprehensions to be both very readable and
compact.  Maybe it's a matter of how familiar you are with them.

x = [a[3].someMethod() for a in some_list if a[2] == y]

seems clearer than:

x = []
for a in some_list:
    if a[2] == y:
        x += a[3].someMethod()

after all, a list comprehension is less general than a for-loop, so
you know more about what it does before you read it.