For loop comprehensions

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 18:59:52 EST 2011


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Westley Martínez <anikom15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, too confusing. Then people'll want compound loops e.g.:
>
> for a in b if c while d else return x:
>    print('Ha ha I'm so clever!')

I've yet to see anybody arguing for while loops to be nested like
that, but we already allow nested for loops in comprehensions and
generator expressions:

[(x, y) for x in a for y in b if c(y)]

Why not allow the same thing in for-loop conditions?  I think that
anything that makes the language syntax more consistent is good.

Cheers,
Ian



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