Raymond Hettinger wrote: (quoting Bengt) >> I assumed that all standard sequence consumers (including list, of >> course) would intercept the StopIteration of a sequence given them in the >> form of a generator expression, so your lyst example would have an >> analogue for other sequence consumers as well, right? >> I.e., there's not a hidden list(genex) in those others I would hope ;-) > > Right.
I see I followed the historical evolvement and saw generator expressions as a lazy listcomp rather than a cool new way to write a generator. That turned out to be the road to confusion. Thanks Carl, thanks Raymond for setting me straight. > I would call it an unfortunate assymmetry -- one the never comes up unless > you're up to no good ;-) Do you see any chance that list comprehensions will be redefined as an alternative spelling for list(<generator expression>)? Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
