[Python-ideas] + operator on generators
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Fri Jun 30 20:17:40 EDT 2017
On 26Jun2017 23:26, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:
>I sometimes wish there was something like
>
>c from:
> yield from a
> yield from b
Nice.
>...or to get a list:
>
>c as list from:
> yield from a
> yield from b
>
>...or a sum:
>
>c as sum from:
> yield from a
> yield from b
>
>These would be great for avoiding crazy oneliner generator expressions.
Also nice, but for me a nonstarter because it breaks the existing pythyon idion
that "... as foo" means to bind the name "foo" as the expression on the left.
Such as with import, except.
So +1 for the form, -1 for the particular keyword.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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