How to create a tuple quickly with list comprehension?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

markacy wrote:

> On 13 Cze, 09:45, "fdu.xia... at gmail.com" <fdu.xia... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I can use list comprehension to create list quickly. So I expected that I
>> can created tuple quickly with the same syntax. But I found that the
>> same syntax will get a generator, not a tuple. Here is my example:
>>
>> In [147]: a = (i for i in range(10))
>>
>> In [148]: b = [i for i in range(10)]
>>
>> In [149]: type(a)
>> Out[149]: <type 'generator'>
>>
>> In [150]: type(b)
>> Out[150]: <type 'list'>
>>
>> Is there a way to create a tuple like (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
>> quickly? I already I can use tuple() on a list which is created by list
>> comprehension to get a desired tuple.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Xiao Jianfeng
> 
> You should do it like this:
> 
>>>> a = tuple([i for i in range(10)])
>>>> type(a)
> <type 'tuple'>
>>>> print a[0]
> 0
>>>> print a[9]
> 9
>>>> print a
> (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

No need to create the intermediate list, a generator expression works just
fine:

a = tuple(i for i in range(10))

Diez