Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Iain King wrote:
>> I'm guessing I'm the one confused here... but I'm confused! What's
>> going on?
>the clauses nest from left to right, not from right to left, so "[x for
>x in y for y in beta]" is equivalent to
>
> out = []
> for x in y:
> for y in beta:
> out.append(x)
And a list comprehension doesn't get a namespace to itself (cf.
generator comprehensions) so "leaks" its variables. Exactly as
above. So the y being iterated over in "for x in y" is the y
from the previous inner iteration ("for y in beta").
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