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Re: Ensure unwanted names removed in class definition

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Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> writes:

> I would probably use a generator expression. These don't leak names:

That's an unexpected inconsistency between list comprehensions versus
generator expressions, then. Is that documented explicitly in the Python
2 documentation?

> Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13) 
> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> class Parrot:
> ...     a = [per for per in "abc"]
> ...     b = list(trans for trans in "def")
> ... 
> >>> Parrot.per
> 'c'
> >>> Parrot.trans
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: class Parrot has no attribute 'trans'

We have a winner! That's elegant, expressive, and has the right
behaviour on both Python 2 and Python 3.

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Ben Finney

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Re: Ensure unwanted names removed in class definition Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-08-13 08:50 +1000

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