[Python-3000] Py3k release schedule worries

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Dec 20 01:19:21 CET 2006


On 12/19/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > - turning list comprehensions into syntactic sugar for generator expressions
>
> I'd like to point out that there is already my patch for that, which implements
> set comprehensions and list comprehensions exactly as syntactic sugar for
> GEs. This, however, affects performance greatly as LCs are executed in their own
> function scope, which isn't necessary. A better implementation would therefore
> leave the LC implementation as is, only preventing the name leaking into the
> enclosing scope.

Do you think you have it in you to tackle this?

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