On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 08:38, Dom Grigonis <dom.grigo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Was that really the intention? Because I was there when PEP 572 was > > written, and I don't recall "beautiful one-liners" as one of the > > justifying reasons. Use around if/while conditions was a strong > > reason, and yes, that can save a line, but "beautiful one-liners" > > hasn't generally been a justifying factor in any Python feature. > > Never said about the intention, just stated that I see it as being a part of > their construction. > > However, in the PEP you have referred and also as I remember reading python’s > “what’s new”, list comprehensions and other 1-liners were close to half of > all examples. >
That is very true. Compactness makes for great "what's new" entries. They want to be easily skimmable, which means they need to be short. That's a constraint that isn't true of real-world code, and it WILL cause the what's-new entries to be a bit nonrepresentative. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/543NP3DE7NLWUYKYDII5DDLBOUV6MUJJ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
