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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:

> On 12/23/2014 4:25 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > To be clear: there's nothing about parentheses that produce a
> > generator expression.
>
> Incorrect; parentheses *are* as a part of 'generator expression'.
> From the doc:
> generator_expression ::=  "(" expression comp_for ")"

Thanks for the correction.

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