[Python-ideas] Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: unpacking generalisations for list comprehension

[David Mertz]

>
> For a more concrete example:
>
> [*range(x) for x in range(4)]
> [*(),*(0,),*(0,1),*(0,1,2)]
> [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2]
>

As Paul or someone pointed out, that's a fairly odd thing to do.  It's the
first time that use case has been mentioned in this thread.  It's true
you've managed to construct something that isn't done by flatten().  I
would have had to think a while to see what you meant by the original if
you haven't provided the intermediate interpretations.

Of course, it's *really simple* to spell that in a natural way with
existing syntax that isn't confusing like yours:

    [x for end in range(4) for x in range(end)]

There is no possible way to construct something that would use the proposed
syntax that can't be expressed more naturally with a nested loop... because
it's just confusing syntax sugar for exactly that.

Your example looks like some sort of interview quiz question to see if
someone knows obscure and unusual syntax.
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