Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Tim Peters
[Chris Barker] > > However, generator expressions ( why don’t we call them generator > > comprehensions?) Because nobody really liked the "iterator comprehensions" or "accumulator displays" they were variously called at the start.

Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Barker via Python-Dev
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Tim Peters wrote: > "comprehensions" was always a dubious term, carried over from set theory > where the term focuses on the optional "if" part rather than the more > fundamental iterator or computation parts. > I always wondered about that :-) -- I'd say for

Re: [Python-Dev] Examples for PEP 572

2018-07-03 Thread INADA Naoki
​ > > In particularly mutating and > > non-mutating operations are separated. The assignment expression breaks > > this. > > [citation needed] > > In terms of blending mutating and non-mutating operations, augmented > assignment is far worse. Contrast: > > >>> x = 1 > >>> y = x > >>> x += 1 > >

Re: [Python-Dev] Examples for PEP 572

2018-07-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:54:22PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > >     results = [(x, y, x/y) for x in input_data for y in [f(x)] if y > 0] > > Would (f(x),) be faster? There is a deferred feature request to optimize "for x in [item]" as equivalent to "for x in (item,)", to avoid constructing a

Re: [Python-Dev] Examples for PEP 572

2018-07-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/3/2018 5:37 PM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: I like programming languages in which all are expressions (including function declarations, branching and loops) and you can use an assignment at any point, but Python is built on other ways, and I like Python too. PEP 572 looks violating several

Re: [Python-Dev] Examples for PEP 572

2018-07-03 Thread Tim Peters
[INADA Naoki] > ... > On the other hand, I understand PEP 572 allows clever code > simplifies tedious code. It may increase readability of non-dirty code. The latter is the entire intent ,of course. We can't force people to write readable code, but I don't understand the widespread assumption

Re: [Python-Dev] Comparing PEP 576 and PEP 580

2018-07-03 Thread INADA Naoki
I think both PEPs are relying on FASTCALL calling convention, and can't be accepted until FASTCALL is stable & public. There are enough time before Python 3.8 is released. Let's go step by step. Regards, On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:10 AM Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > Hello all, > > in order to make

Re: [Python-Dev] Examples for PEP 572

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > I believe most Python users are not > professional programmers -- they are sysadmins, scientists, hobbyists and > kids -- [citation needed] > In particularly mutating and > non-mutating operations are separated. The assignment expression

Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Victor Stinner
2018-07-02 20:19 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum : > Thank you all. I will accept the PEP as is. (...) I see more and more articles ("on the Internet") saying that Guido van Rossum already accepted the PEP. Is the PEP already accepted or will be accepted? Right now,

Re: [Python-Dev] Examples for PEP 572

2018-07-03 Thread Chris Barker via Python-Dev
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Serhiy Storchaka > wrote: > > I believe most Python users are not > > professional programmers -- they are sysadmins, scientists, hobbyists and > > kids -- > > [citation needed] fair enough, but I think we

Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/3/2018 2:42 AM, Tim Peters wrote: So if we had it to do over again I'd sigh and accept "generator comprehensions" anyway.  It's been an eternal PITA - and especially in the PEP 572 threads! - to keep typing "comprehensions or generator expressions".  Then again, if I had the power of

Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Greg Ewing
Terry Reedy wrote: If we had followed the math precedent, instead of language>, we would have set builders, list builders, dict builders, and generator builders. I was intending to suggest something like that back when comprehensions were first being discussed, but people raced ahead and

Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 4:25 PM Victor Stinner wrote: > 2018-07-02 20:19 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum : > > Thank you all. I will accept the PEP as is. (...) > > I see more and more articles ("on the Internet") saying that Guido van > Rossum already accepted the PEP. Is the PEP already accepted or

[Python-Dev] Examples for PEP 572

2018-07-03 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
I like programming languages in which all are expressions (including function declarations, branching and loops) and you can use an assignment at any point, but Python is built on other ways, and I like Python too. PEP 572 looks violating several Python design principles. Python looks simple

Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
I smell a new thread. :-) On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:06 PM Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/3/2018 2:42 AM, Tim Peters wrote: > > > So if we had it to do over again I'd sigh and accept "generator > > comprehensions" anyway. It's been an eternal PITA - and especially in > > the PEP 572 threads! - to

[Python-Dev] Naming comprehension syntax [was Re: Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 ...]

2018-07-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 11:13:20AM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: > >If we had followed the math precedent, instead of >language>, we would have set builders, list builders, dict builders, and > >generator builders. > > I was intending to suggest something like that back when >

Re: [Python-Dev] Informal educator feedback on PEP 572 (was Re: 2018 Python Language Summit coverage, last part)

2018-07-03 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-Dev
On 03/07/2018 06:47, Tim Peters wrote: [Rob Cliffe] > It's late to raise this, By months, yes ;-) > but what exactly are the objections to the syntax >         expr -> name  # or variations such as  expr => name > instead of >         name := expr > > The PEP mentions that this syntax does

[Python-Dev] Comparing PEP 576 and PEP 580

2018-07-03 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Hello all, in order to make reviewing PEP 576/580 easier and possibly take some ideas from one PEP to the other, let me state the one fundamental difference between these PEPs. There are many details in both PEPs that can still change, so I'm focusing on what I think is the big structural