Ken Pu wrote: > So the list comprehension actually creates a variable x which is > somewhat unexpected. > Is there a way for me keep the iterating variable in list > comprehension local to the list comprehension?
Not with a list comprehension, but generator expressions do not leak their iterating variable: >>> list(x for x in range(10)) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> x Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'x' is not defined Jeffrey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
