> Generator expressions make syntactic support irrelevant:

Not when you're teaching the language to undergraduates: I haven't
actually done the study yet (though I may this summer), but I'm willing to
bet that allowing "math" notation for sets will more than double their
use.  (Imagine having to write "list(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)"...)

> Accordingly,Guido rejected the braced notation for set comprehensions.
> See:  http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0218.html

"...however, the issue could be revisited for Python 3000 (see PEP 3000)."
So I'm only 1994 years early ;-)

Thanks,
Greg
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