Re: list comprehension

tac-tics wrote:
a wrote:
can someone tell me how to use them
thanks

sigh...
You do a google on them:

http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html#SECTION007140000000000000000


thank you for the reminder. But after reading it, I was left with a question. Why the new syntax for what appears to be nothing more than a different way of expressing nested for loops? at first I tried rearranging the one of the examples from the previously referenced document to clarify (in my mind) what was going on:

[x*y
for x in vec1
for y in vec2
]

then when I tried to rewrite it as a nested for loop, that's when I realized list comprehensions is a method of returning the calculation in the interior of a for loop as an assignment without requiring aggregation of results in a temporary variable.

so a double thank you to you because you've clarified something that has been a mystery to me for awhile.

now if I could find someone to explain distutils and eggs so that I understand that as well... ;-) Heck, I would even settle for a wizard tool generating the first approximation for me.

---eric

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