On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau...@gmail.com> wrote: > In reading thorough the syntax defined in the reference, the class statement > has surprised me. > > It says that the inheritance part of the class can accept comprehensions. > What does this mean? > I've tried: > "class A(x for x in ()): pass" > but this doesn't need the extra clause as "x for x in ()" is an expression, > and thus this evaluates: > "class A(x for x in (),): pass" > although again it won't be a valid class anytime soon. > > So what is this clause for?
That's new to me as well. There's nothing about it in PEP 3115. I suspect it's a bad copy-and-paste from the function call syntax. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
