"Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Ken Pu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way for me keep the iterating variable in list >> comprehension local to the list comprehension? > > Kind of. You can use a generator expression instead of a list > comprehension, and those don't leak their internal variables into the > enclosing scope:
Whoa, that's cool. I didn't even think to try that, just assuming it would do the same. Though now that I think about it, I don't see how it possibly could, since it just evaluates to an object that you could pass around, and return, using it the same way elsewhere. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
