Mark Elston wrote: > * Gabriel Genellina wrote (on 1/5/2007 12:49 PM): > > At Friday 5/1/2007 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> wordfreq = [wordlist.count(p) for p in wordlist] > >> > >> I would expect > >> > >> for p in wordlist: > >> wordfreq.append(wordlist.count(p)) > >> > >> > >> I didn't know you could have an expression in the same line. > > > > That's known as a "list comprehension" and is roughly equivalent to your > > code. Section 5 of the tutorial covers them. > > http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html > > > > > > If you have a Python installation you should be able to find the > "Whats New" section of the docs. List comprehensions are described > pretty well in the "What's new in Python 2.0?" section. This gives > some simple examples as well as the rationale behind them.
Shouldn't that same page be found on the python website? http://www.python.org/doc/2.0/ Any clue as to why it isn't? > Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
