[Python-Dev] accumulator display syntax

Tue Oct 21 18:28:51 EDT 2003

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> [...]
> Thanks for trying to bang some sense into this.
>> Personally, I still like the idea best to make
>> (x for x in S)
>> be an iterator comprehension
>> and
>> [x for x in S]
>> syntactic sugar for the common operation
>> list((x for x in S))

Would this mean:
[x for x in S] is a list comprehension and
[(x for x in S)] is a list containing one generator expression?
Bye,
 Walter Dörwald