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Subject: Re: Howto flaten a list of lists was (Explanation of this Python language feature)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:12:33 +0000
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On 28/03/2014 21:56, Mark H Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:42 PM, vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> Can anyone - maybe one of the Python language core team, or someone
>  >> with knowledge of the internals of Python - can explain why this >>
> code works, and whether the different occurrences of the name x in >>
> the expression, are in different scopes or not? :
>  >>
>  >> x = [[1,2], [3,4], [5,6]]
>  >>     [x for x in x for x in x]
>
>  > I'll give this +1 for playfulness, and -2 for lack of clarity.
>
>  > I hope no one thinks this sort of thing is good to do in real-life code.

Strange, I thought Dan Stromberg wrote the above.
>
> No. This has to be a better way to flatten lists:
>
>  >>> from functools import reduce
>
>  >>> import operator as λ
>
>  >>> reduce(λ.add, l)
> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>

Why reinvent yet another way of flattening lists, particulary one that 
doesn't use the far more sensible:-

from operator import add

As for the stupid symbol that you're using, real programmers don't give 
a damn about such things, they prefer writing plain, simple, boring code 
that is easy to read.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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