reduce to be removed?

[Robert Kern]

Dustan wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>> if you care about writing robust code, why not just use a for-loop,
>> and the list extend method?
> 
> Because I'm embedding this expression in a list comprehension (as I
> stated in my original post), and last time I checked, it's not possible
> to treat a for-loop as an expression (which is what a list
> comprehension requires).

As with all such things, you stick the implementation in a well-named function
and simply call the function everywhere. The implementation never needs to be a
one-liner expression.

-- 
Robert Kern

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 an underlying truth."
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