Em Sex, 2006-04-14 às 13:37 -0500, Robert Kern escreveu: > Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > > Em Sex, 2006-04-14 às 13:28 -0500, Robert Kern escreveu: > > > >>Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> > >>>I came across an interesting (as in the Chinese curse) problem today. I > >>>had to modify a piece of code using generator expressions written with > >>>Python 2.4 in mind to run under version 2.3, but I wanted the code to > >>>continue to use the generator expression if possible. > >> > >>Why? AFAICT, it really is just syntactic sugar. Very nice syntactic sugar, > >>but > >>not necessary at all. If you are going to have the ugly, syntactically > >>bitter > >>version in your code anyways, why clutter up your code even more trying to > >>do both? > > > > Right. You can always use classes. > > Well, I guess you could, but using actual generators would be much cleaner.
That's the whole point around syntactic sugar: being cleaner, more concise, (sometimes) less error-prone and (less times) faster. -- Felipe. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
