在 2022年9月2日星期五 UTC+2 00:17:23,<cameron...@gmail.com> 写道: > On 02Sep2022 07:01, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Fri, 2 Sept 2022 at 06:55, James Tsai <james...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No but very often when I have written a neat list/dict/set > >> comprehension, I find it very necessary > >> to define local variable(s) to make it more clear and concise. Otherwise I > >> have to break it down > >> to several incrementally indented lines of for loops, if statements, and > >> variable assignments, > >> which I think look less nice. > > > >Well, if it's outgrown a list comp, write it on multiple lines. Like I > >said, not everything has to be a one-liner. > True, but a comprehension can be more expressive than a less > "functional" expression (series of statements). > > James, can you provide (a) a real world example where you needed to > write a series of statements or loops and (b) a corresponding example of > how you would have preferred to have written that code, possibly > inventing some syntax or misusing ":=" as if it workeed they way you'd > like it to work? > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
Yeah, I think list comprehension is particularly useful to construct a deeply nested list/dict. For example, I am now using Plotly to visualize a cellular network including several base stations and users. Here is the function I have written: def plot_network(area, base_stations, users): bs_poses = np.array([bs.pos for bs in base_stations]) ue_poses = np.array([ue.pos for ue in users]) fig = px.scatter(x=bs_poses[:, 0], y=bs_poses[:, 1]) fig.add_scatter(x=ue_poses[:, 0], y=ue_poses[:, 1]) fig.update_layout( xaxis=dict(range=[0, area[0]], nticks=5), yaxis=dict(range=[0, area[1]], nticks=5), shapes=[dict( type="circle", fillcolor="PaleTurquoise", x0=x-r, y0=y-r, x1=x+r, y1=y+r, hovertext=f"({x:.2f}, {y:.2f})", opacity=0.3 ) for bs in base_stations for x, y in [bs.pos] for r in [bs.cell_radius]], ) return fig Simply put, I want to scatter the BSs and users, and additionally I want to draw a big circle around each BS to represent its cell coverage. I can choose to write 'x0=bs.pos[0]-bs.cell_radius, y0=...' instead, but it becomes less concise, and if x, y, or r is the return value of a function instead of a property, it becomes more computationally expensive to repeat calling the function as well. I also can create the list of 'shapes' by appending to a list, like shapes = [] for bs in base_stations: x, y = bs.pos r = bs.cell_radius shapes.append(dict(...)) fig.update_layout( xaxis=dict(range=[0, area[0]], nticks=5), yaxis=dict(range=[0, area[1]], nticks=5), shapes=shapes ) But in my opinion this is much less concise. I think it looks better to create the list within the nested structure. So I totally agree that list comprehension adds much expressiveness in Python. I only wonder whether it is a good idea to introduce a specific syntax for local variable assignment in list comprehensions, instead of using "for r in [bs.cell_radius]". I am also surprised to know that the assignment operator ":=" in a list comprehension will assign a variable outside of the scope of the comprehension. I think it does not make sense since a list comprehension without a ":=" will never change name bindings outside itself. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list