Roulette wheel

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Mar 18 16:20:14 EDT 2009


In article <49c1562a$0$1115$4fafbaef at reader1.news.tin.it>,
mattia  <gervaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Yeah, and I believe that we can say the same for:
>1 - t = [x*2 for x in range(10)]
>2 - t = list(x*2 for x in range(10))
>or not?

The latter requires generator expressions, which means it only works with
Python 2.4 or higher.  Personally, I think that if the intent is to
create a list you should just use a listcomp instead of list() on a
genexp.
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