Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> writes: > On 5/5/2009 9:15 AM J Kenneth King said... > >> List comprehensions can make a reader of your code apprehensive >> because it can read like a run-on sentence and thus be difficult to >> parse. The Python documentation discourages their use and I believe >> for good reason. > > Can you provide a link for this? I'd like to see specifically what's > being discouraged, as I'd be surprised to find routine usage frowned > upon. > > Emile
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#nested-list-comprehensions "If you’ve got the stomach for it, list comprehensions can be nested. They are a powerful tool but – like all powerful tools – they need to be used carefully, if at all." and "In real world, you should prefer builtin functions to complex flow statements." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
