On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:20:11 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > I stumbled upon an interesting bit of trivia concerning lists and list > comprehensions today. > > We use mongoengine as a database model layer. A mongoengine query > returns an iterable object called a QuerySet. The "obvious" way to > create a list of the query results would be: > > my_objects = list(my_query_set) > > and, indeed, that works. But, then I found this code: > > my_objects = [obj for obj in my_query_set] > > which seemed a bit silly. I called over the guy who wrote it and asked > him why he didn't just write it using list(). I was astounded when it > turned out there's a good reason!
And why was that not documented in the code? I hope you took this fellow out and gave him a damned good thrashing! -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
