On 6/28/2018 8:05 AM, Baptiste Carvello wrote:
Le 28/06/2018 à 01:31, Greg Ewing a écrit :
Well, I remain profoundly unconvinced that writing comprehensions
with side effects is ever a good idea, and Tim's examples did
nothing to change that.
Comprehensions with side effects feel scary indeed. But I could see
myself using some variant of the "cumsum" example (for scientific work
at the command prompt):
x=0; [x:=x+i for i in range(5)]
Creating an unneeded list with a comprehension purely for side effects
is considered a bad idea by many.
x = 0
for i in range(5): x += i
Here the side effects are irrelevant, the "x" variable won't be reused.
If we ignore the side effect on x, the above is equivalent to 'pass' ;-)
Perhaps you meant
x = 0
cum = [x:=x+i for i in range(5)]
which is equivalent to
x, cum = 0, []
for i in range(5): x += i; cum.append(x)
But it needs to be initialized at the start of the comprehension.
I would happily get rid of the side-effects, but then what would be a
non-cryptic alternative to the above example?
The above as likely intended can also be written
import itertools as it
cum = list(it.accumulate(range(5)))
We have two good existing alternatives to the proposed innovation.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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