[Tutor] a quetion on"There should be one and preferabley one obvious way to do it"

Michael P. Reilly arcege@speakeasy.net
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:28:53 -0500


On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 04:35:10PM -0500, dman wrote:
> I agree with you that syntactically list comprehensions are weird, at
> first.  Once you figure them out, they're a piece of cake and
> convenient too!

My point was that it is actually anti-pythonic - making the syntax more
"weird".  I've understood the power and use of them for a long time.
That still doesn't mean that I think it is very good syntactically when
considering Python's history.

  -Arcege