Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:25:29 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote: >>Bengt Richter wrote: >> >>> >>> identity = ''.join([chr(i) for i in xrange(256)]) >> >>And note that with Python 2.4, in each case the above square brackets >>are unnecessary (though harmless), because of the arrival of "generator >>expressions" in the language. > > But to use generator expressions, wouldn't you need an extra pair of round > brackets? > > eg identity = ''.join( ( chr(i) for i in xrange(256) ) )
Come on, Steven. Don't tell us you didn't have access to a Python interpreter to check before you posted: c:\>python Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 >>> ''.join(chr(c) for c in range(65, 91)) 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
