On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:23 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 11, 10:05 pm, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 11 Jun 2013 17:47, "rusi" <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > [Of course I would prefer a 3-liner where the body of the for is >> > indented :-) ] >> >> Is this an aside comprehension? > > Eh?
I know they always say "don't explain the joke", but I'll have a shot at it. It's somewhat like an autopsy though - you find out why it ticks, but in the process, you prove that it's no longer ticking... An aside comprehension is a means of generating an aside in-line, as an expression. In this case, Fabio believes that you were iterating over the smiley to generate comments about three-liners, and the square brackets delimit the comprehension just as they do in a list comprehension. It's another case of code syntax cropping up in English, like this example of ternary punctuation from a C++ program... //TODO?: blah blah blah That doesn't translate too well into Python though. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
