Daniel Schüle wrote: > Hello NG, > > I am wondering if there were proposals or previous disscussions in this > NG considering using 'while' in comprehension lists > > # pseudo code > i=2 > lst=[i**=2 while i<1000] > > of course this could be easily rewritten into > i=2 > lst=[] > while i<1000: > i**=2 > lst.append(i)
That would loop endlessly since you don't increment i. You can use i**=2 for i in range(1000) instead -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list