On 2010-04-03 23:30:32 -0700, Steve Howell said:

On Apr 3, 9:58 pm, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote:
Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote:

I've just spent a few hours debugging code similar to this:

d = dict()
for r in [1,2,3]:
   d[r] = [r for r in [4,5,6]]
print d

Yes, this has been fixed in later revisions, but I'm curious to know what
led you to believe that a list comprehension created a new scope.  I don't
that was ever promised.

Common sense about how programming languages should work?  As
confirmed by later revisions?

Where exactly does this common sense come from? A list comprehension is basically syntactic sugar over a for loop, and...

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for x in range(10):
        pass

x
9


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