Explanation of this Python language feature? [x for x in x for x in x] (to flatten a nested list)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 22/03/2014 09:09, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Two: A comprehension variable is not bound but reassigned across the
>> comprehension. This problem remains in python3 and causes weird behavior when
>> lambdas are put in a comprehension
>
> Because Python as a language only has the concept of assignment, not
> binding.  I think it would be weird and confusing if variables worked
> this way in comprehensions and nowhere else.
>

My understanding has always been that an expression of the rhs is bound 
to a name of the lhs.  So is my understanding wrong, or is the above 
wrong, or are we talking at cross purposes, or what?

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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