On 11 Jun 2013 18:48, "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:23 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jun 11, 10:05 pm, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 11 Jun 2013 17:47, "rusi" <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > [Of course I would prefer a 3-liner where the body of the for is > >> > indented :-) ] > >> > >> Is this an aside comprehension? > > > > Eh? > > I know they always say "don't explain the joke", but I'll have a shot > at it. It's somewhat like an autopsy though - you find out why it > ticks, but in the process, you prove that it's no longer ticking... > > An aside comprehension is a means of generating an aside in-line, as > an expression. In this case, Fabio believes that you were iterating > over the smiley to generate comments about three-liners, and the > square brackets delimit the comprehension just as they do in a list > comprehension. > > It's another case of code syntax cropping up in English, like this > example of ternary punctuation from a C++ program... > > //TODO?: blah blah blah > > That doesn't translate too well into Python though. > > ChrisA > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
That was the joke. Unfortunately I didn't have a better synonym for "aside" so it wasn't so obvious.
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