[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Martelli wrote: > > This becomes a valid list comprehension by writing 'if' instead of > > 'when'. > valid, yes. efficient, I am not sure. > > [ x for x in xrange(10000000) if p(x) ] > > means I need to go through the whole range even if p = lambda x: x < 2.
Of course, barring semantically-very-deep optimizations (ones no production implementation I know of ANY language would even try). And, your POINT would be...? Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
