On 6/28/21 5:40 PM, Max Shouman wrote: > This is more of a syntactic sugar than an actual new feature, but... > Exactly, 'but' is the idea: a special keyword to be used in for statements to > exclude values from the iterable. > > E.g., when iterating over a generator: >>>> for i in range(0, 10) but (2, 8): > would implicitly create a new generator comprehensively, as in: >>>> for i in (j for j in range(0, 10) if j not in [2, 8]): > It might not add such a feature to justify the definition of a but_stmt in > python.gram, but it's fully compliant with Python's philosophy of concise, > clear and elegant code. > > #road to a programming natural language (jk)
Wild idea, but could we avoid a new keyword by reusing one that can't go there, like except? for i in range(0,10) except (2, 8): don't know if it is actually worth it, but at least it doesn't add a new keyword. -- Richard Damon _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/EKASCDKVQT75UY7HSLYFVW62IDH7DRTU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/