Re: Grammar for classes

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: Grammar for classes
Date	2011-12-22 18:39 -0500
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On 12/20/2011 12:05 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
> On 20 December 2011 10:55, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com
> <mailto:robert.kern@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/20/11 1:34 AM, Joshua Landau wrote:
>
>         In reading thorough the syntax defined in the reference
>         <http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/compound_stmts.html#class-definitions>>,
>
>         the class statement has surprised me.
>
>         It says that the inheritance part of the class can accept
>         comprehensions. What
>         does this mean?

Beats me. The 2.7 doc says inheritance ::=  "(" [expression_list] ")" 
and I no on no 3.x change/addition. My experiments with both genexp and 
listcomp versions gave errors.

> I ignore valid code. Thanks Ian and Robert for the input. Should I file
> a documentation bug report?

Please do. It the addition means something, it needs to be explained in 
the text. If it is wrong, it should go.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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