On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:07:35 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:13:08 -0700, bearophileHUGS wrote:
>
>> I'd like to know why Python 2.6 doesn't have the syntax to create sets/
>> dicts of Python 3.0, like:
>>
>> {x*x for x in xrange(10)}
>> {x:x*x for x in xrange(10)}
>
> Maybe nobody asked for it?
>
> Personally, I don't see the advantage of set and dict comprehensions.
In fact, it is a good syntax sugar for set/dict(generator-comprehension)
> I
> think the value of them is very marginal, not worth the additional
> syntax.
>
> set([x*x for x in xrange(10)])
<nitpick>
You should omit the []s as it would force python to build an internal
list. I'm sure you know this would be a problem for large comprehensions.
</nitpick>
> dict((x, x*x) for x in xrange(10))
>
> work perfectly well using the existing syntax.
>
>
> --
> Steven
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