Guido van Rossum: > - Before anybody asks, I really do think the reason this is requested > at all is really just to save typing; there isn't the "avoid double > evaluation" argument that helped acceptance for assignment operators > (+= etc.), and I find redability is actually improved with 'for'.
For me, the main motivation is to drop an unnecessarily repeated identifier. If you repeat something there is a chance that one of the occurrances will be wrong which is one reason behind the Don't Repeat Yourself principle. The reader can more readily see that this is a filter expression rather than a transforming expression. Neil _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
