Hi Alex,

    Sorry, it does work---it was a spacing problem. I should have copy-
and-paste yours.

Thanks
Pong

On Oct 18, 10:14 pm, "Alex Ghitza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm.  As far as I know you can use _ as a placeholder for a variable, and
> it's meant for this kind of use (where you don't really want to introduce a
> new variable name).  It's strange that it doesn't work for you.  Can you
> post the error message that you get?
>
> I guess it's not a big deal since you can always use x as you did, but if
> it's really not working it might be a sign of other trouble.
>
> Alex
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:31 PM, pong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Alex
>
> >    Thanks for the quick reply. By _ you mean a variable? I tried your
> > syntax but it does not work.
> >    However, [2*x for x in [3,4]] does work.
>
> --
> Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne --
> Australia --http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/
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