Bugs item #1695272, was opened at 2007-04-05 20:59 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by gbrandl You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1695272&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: Python 2.5 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Invalid Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: wplapper (wplapper) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: generator expression produces incomplete list Initial Comment: (eliminate(values, s, d2) for d2 in values[s] if d2 != d) is producing incomplete results for the above statement. If the statement split into two parts, the results are correct. xxx = [d2 for d2 in values[s] if d2 != d] zzz = (eliminate(values, s, d2) for d2 in xxx) return all(zzz) First create temporary list xxx and then apply generator expression zzz. The problem has been observed for python 2.4.3 and 2.5.0.0, on Windows, Solaris (x86) and on Linux. For me, the error pattern is consistent for all test cases I ran. This is the output of the attach script: wrong assign.s 0 d 2 val [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 1 val [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 3 val [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 5 val [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 7 val [2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 9 val [2, 4, 6, 8, 9] right assign.s 0 d 2 val [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 1 val [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 3 val [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 4 val [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 5 val [2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 6 val [2, 6, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 7 val [2, 7, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 8 val [2, 8, 9] eliminate.s 0 d 9 val [2, 9] The test program is supposed to remove ALL numbers from the list, apart from "2". In the wrong case, only odd numbers are removed. Best regards, Winfried ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl) Date: 2007-04-05 21:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=849994 Originator: NO This is a programming error. In the "wrong" function, the "values" dict is mutated by the eliminate() function while it is iterated over. This always gives unexpected results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1695272&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com