> My thoughts where to let the 'leftmost' section of the expression to be > intact so that any of the dynamic things done to this part, i.e. > replacing time.time with random.random are taken into consideration. > What can be done is to extract the expression into a loopless structure > > lst = list(time.time() for i in xrange(10)) > would be compiled to the bytecode version of: > lst = [time.time(), time.time(), time.time(), time.time() ...] > > Then time.time can do whatever it wants to. It's the (x)range function > that we need to enshure returns the same values in every execution. This > *IS* a useless feature, but I think it's possible to make it work.
What makes the leftmost expression different from the iterable returning expression inside the for? The same arguments apply there. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list