Odd name shadowing in comprehension

Steve D'Aprano steve+python at pearwood.info
Sun Oct 23 02:15:29 EDT 2016


On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 01:15 pm, eryk sun wrote:

> I meant the behavior seems to have been copied to align with generator
> expressions, even though the cited rationale doesn't apply. I'm not
> saying this is wrong. It's useful that the expression for the outer
> iterator is evaluated in the defining scope. However, it's only
> documented for generator expressions, in 6.2.8. The documentation for
> comprehensions in 6.2.4 makes no mention of it.

6.2.8? 6.2.4? What are these references to?




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Steve
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