Why is this discussion talking about comprehensions at all? Is there a decent use case for using assignments in comprehensions (as opposed to language lawyering or deliberate obfuscation)?
Regards Antoine. On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:25:14 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote: > > Using this assigned result elsewhere in the same expression (akin to > > regex backreferences) is not a part of the basic idea actually. > > If that's true, then the proposal has mutated into something > that has *no* overlap whatsoever with the use case that started > this whole discussion, which was about binding a temporary > variable in a comprehension, for use *within* the comprehension. > > > It depends on the evaluation order (and whether something is evaluated > > at all), > > Which to my mind is yet another reason not to like ":=". > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com