On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:41:59 -0700, Ben wrote: > I have recently learned how list comprehension works and am finding it > extremely cool. I am worried, however, that I may be stuffing it into > places that it does not belong.
Others have suggested reasons why you might or might not want to use list comprehensions. Here's three more reasons: * You have a LOT of data to handle. (But remember that a lot to you might not be a lot to your computer.) * You don't need to handle the items all at once, and can handle the items one at a time instead. Use an iterator, generator expression, or other lazily-evaluated function instead. That way you avoid forming the list all at once. * You have to write code that's backwards-compatible to an old version of Python. Use a list and a for-loop. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
