Steven D'Aprano added the comment:

Is this unnecessary code churn?

That's not a rhetorical question. Fixing code that isn't broken is not always a 
good idea.

``func(<list comprehension>)`` is not always identical to ``func(<generator 
expression>)``, there are situations where there is a significant performance 
difference between the two. E.g. str.join() is significantly faster when passed 
a list than when passed a generator expression. According to my tests:

    ''.join(['abc' for x in range(1000000)])

is about 40% faster than

    ''.join('abc' for x in range(1000000))

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nosy: +steven.daprano

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