[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax

Tue Oct 21 15:08:30 EDT 2003

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 01:58 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> At one time, I got a lot of feedback on this from comp.lang.python.
> Just about everyone found the brackets to be helpful and not 
> misleading,
> the immediate presence of "yield" was more than enough to signal that
> an iterator was being returned instead of a list:
>> 	g = [yield (len(line),line) for line in file if len(line)>5]

FWIW, that g is an iterator is *far* less surprising than the fact that 
yield turns a function into a generator. If it's okay that a yield in 
the body of a function change the function, why can't a yield in the 
body of a list comprehension change the list comprehension? It's a lot 
more noticeable, and people should know that "yield" signals something 
a little more tricky is going on. Also has good symmetry with the 
current meaning of yield.
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