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Rob Lanphier added the comment:
Moving it earlier in the tutorial is likely to do more harm than help.
In teaching Python, you need some gap between learning for-loops and
learning list comprehensions (the former is a prerequisite for the
latter).
The problem here is that many people get
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
Sorry, I'm going to close this one because I believe it would make the
documentation worse.
I don't believe that making a forward reference from section 4.2 to section 5.6
helps anyone.
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Alexander Grigorievskiy added the comment:
I have added some clarification following Westley Martínez recommendation. I
provided references to the list comprehensions and generator expressions. I
tried to make the description short.
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Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
We do have prominent entries in the glossary and tutorial:
https://docs.python.org/2.7/glossary.html#term-list-comprehension
https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions
Moving it earlier in the tutorial is likely to do more
Westley Martínez added the comment:
I'm curious what the best way to do this would be. Obviously the simplest
would just be 'See also list comprehensions.' However since this is a
tutorial, I was thinking of adding something like this:
'In other languages, for loops are often used to fill a
Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com:
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versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5
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New submission from Rob Lanphier:
The current list comprehension documentation is difficult to find for someone
who doesn't know what a list comprehension is. Example of this problem:
http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1w6slm/different_kind_of_for_loop_python/
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