strange for loop construct

Dustan DustanGroups at gmail.com
Sun Jan 7 16:52:42 EST 2007


Mark Elston wrote:
> * Gabriel Genellina wrote (on 1/5/2007 12:49 PM):
> > At Friday 5/1/2007 17:39, Sardaukary at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> wordfreq = [wordlist.count(p) for p in wordlist]
> >>
> >> I would expect
> >>
> >> for p in wordlist:
> >>     wordfreq.append(wordlist.count(p))
> >>
> >>
> >> I didn't know you could have an expression in the same line.
> >
> > That's known as a "list comprehension" and is roughly equivalent to your
> > code. Section 5 of the tutorial covers them.
> > http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html
> >
> >
>
> If you have a Python installation you should be able to find the
> "Whats New" section of the docs.  List comprehensions are described
> pretty well in the "What's new in Python 2.0?" section.  This gives
> some simple examples as well as the rationale behind them.

Shouldn't that same page be found on the python website?
http://www.python.org/doc/2.0/
Any clue as to why it isn't?

> Mark




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