Greg Ewing wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote:
>> LCs were originally designed to leak
>
> Well, they weren't really *designed* to leak, it was
> just a side effect of the implementation.
>
> It seems to have been decided that it was better to
> keep it that way than risk breaking things that might
> depend on it. Personally I would rather have had it
> documented as "undefined".
Genexps don't leak their iteration variables, and neither do Py3k list
comps. So it has only been kept that way in 2.x because nobody came up
with a graceful way of deprecating it in the past and "list(genexp)" is
now available as a trivial workaround.
Cheers,
Nick.
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