Proposed new syntax

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:46 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:

> My issue is that the tutorial introduces comprehensions backwards, as though
> they are a macro for the for-loop

Python doesn't have macros as such, but if it did, that would be a good way to
describe comprehensions.

Another way would be to say that comprehensions are syntactic sugar for a
for-loop and accumulator.

You say "as though they are", but that's exactly the point -- that is precisely
what they are.


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Steve
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