List comprehensions and evaluation of elements therein

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:12 PM, James Harris <james.harris.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A list comprehension has various components. Anyone know when each of the
> elements is evaluated? In the form
>
>  [v0 for v0 in expr0 if expr1]
>
> If v0 appears in expr0 or expr1 the evaluation order matters.
>
> I think of the above as being a rewrite of
>
>  results = []
>  for v0 in expr0:
>    if expr1:
>      results.append(v0)
>  return results
>
> Further,
>
>  [v0, v2 for v0 in expr0 if expr1 for v2 in expr2 if expr3]
>
> leads to
>
>  results = []
>  for v0 in expr0:
>     if expr1:
>        for v2 in expr2:
>           if expr3:
>              results.append((v0, v2))
>  return results
>
> First of all, is that a correct analog of the list comprehension?

Looks right, see:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#displays-for-lists-sets-and-dictionaries

Note that the last sentence there about names not "leaking" is only
true for Python 3.

You may also be interested in PEPs 202 and 289.