On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:37 AM, Peter O'Connor <peter.ed.ocon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's look at a task where there is "one obvious way" > > Suppose someone asks: "How can I build a list of squares of the first 100 > odd numbers [1, 9, 25, 49, ....] in Python?" The answer is now obvious - > few people would do this: > > list_of_odd_squares = [] > for i in range(100): > list_of_odd_squares.append((i*2+1)**2) > > or this: > > def iter_odd_squares(n)): > for i in range(n): > yield (i*2+1)**2 > > list_of_odd_squares = list(iter_odd_squares(100)) > > Because it's just more clean, compact, readable and "obvious" to do: > > list_of_even_squares = [(i*2+1)**2 for i in range(100)] > > Maybe I'm being presumptuous, but I think most Python users would agree. >
Or: squares = [i**2 for i in range(1, 200, 2)] So maybe even the obvious examples aren't quite as obvious as you might think. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
