Different behaviour in list comps and generator expressions

[Roy Smith]

In article <545d76fe$0$12980$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> The following list comprehension and generator expression are almost, but
> not quite, the same:
> 
> [expr for x in iterable]
> 
> list(expr for x in iterable)
> 
> 
> The difference is in the handling of StopIteration raised inside the expr.
> Generator expressions consume them and halt, while comprehensions allow
> them to leak out. A simple example:
> 
> iterable = [iter([])]
> list(next(x) for x in iterable)
> => returns []
> 
> But:
> 
> [next(x) for x in iterable]
> => raises StopIteration
> 
> 
> Has anyone come across this difference in the wild? Was it a problem? Do you
> rely on that difference, or is it a nuisance? Has it caused difficulty in
> debugging code?
> 
> If you had to keep one behaviour, which would you keep?

Wow, that's really esoteric.  I can't imagine this happening in 
real-life code (but I'm sure somebody will come up with an example :-))

My inclination is that a list comprehension should stop if StopIteration 
is raised by the comprehension body.  I can't come up with a good 
argument to support that, other than it seems like the right thing to do.