Yes, Greg, you are correct. After I posted, I encountered a later message that suggested it was list comprehensions that had accidentally left a variable behind in a context when theoretically you got ALL you asked for in the resulting list, so it fixed eventually.
You live and learn till you don't. -----Original Message----- From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail....@python.org> On Behalf Of Greg Ewing via Python-list Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 6:49 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: it seems like a few weeks ago... but actually it was more like 30 years ago that i was programming in C, and On 28/02/23 7:40 am, avi.e.gr...@gmail.com wrote: > inhahe <inh...@gmail.com> made the point that this may not have been the original intent for python and may be a sort of bug that it is too late to fix. Guido has publically stated that it was a deliberate design choice. The merits of that design choice can be debated, but it wasn't a bug or an accident. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
