"Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. A statement has side-effects but it returns no value. And yes, you > can create a name within an expression producing a value in Python, > using a list/generator comprehension. The solution to Bob's problem > would look like this: > > if (I for I in (a.find("3"),) ) != -1: > print "It's here: ", I > else: > print "No 3's here"
I think that works for list comprehensions but not generator comprehensions. With generator comprehensions, the index variable's scope is limited to the comprehension. With list comprehensions there's a wart in that the index variable is still around afterwards. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list