[Python-ideas] Assignments in list/generator expressions

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Eugene Toder <eltoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>> The problem, as I see it is that you see it as ``missing''.  You have
>> some internal model of computer languages and not having it disagrees
>> with your notion of 'completeness' or 'symmetry' or 'consistency' or
>> something along those lines.
>
> I just like to have a reasonable explanation for everything I see. A
> good story is what often separates a feature from a bug.

Your continued insistence on hearing an explanation why it is missing
is beginning to sound more and more like asking when Python stopped
beating his wife.

(This is not unusual. We get a lot of questions phrased as "why does
Python not do X?" Do you think that is a good way to get a discussion
started?)

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