Odd behaviour with list comprehension

[Steve Holden]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> "Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote in message 
[...]
> | Well, the fact that the bound variable in the list comprehension does
> | indeed remain outside the construct is simply the result of an
> | over-zealous wish to emulate for loop semantics. The original reasoning,
> | IIRC, as that since a for loop left its bound variable at the last used
> | value, so should a list comprehension.
> |
> | This was quickly recognized as a mistake, but unfortunately not quickly
> | enough. As it was felt that some people might already have relied on
> | that behavior, it was retained in the interests of preserving backwards
> | compatibility.
> 
> But it will not be retained in 3.0, as I understand it.
> So best to not exploit the deprecated behavior.
> 
Correct. The compatibility break provided by 3.0 allows the developers 
to drop this historical grunge.

regards
  Steve
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