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RE: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed

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Subject RE: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed
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> But it breaks all the picture that I've built in my head about comps till
> now...

Note that list comprehensions are little more than syntactic sugar for for
loops. If you're having terrible writing or understanding one, especially a
compound one like your example, it can help to write it as a (nested) for
loop, then covert it (perhaps incrementally) to the list comp form.

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Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed "Ivan Evstegneev" <webmailgroups@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 16:56 +0200
  Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 07:09 -0800
    RE: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed "Ivan Evstegneev" <webmailgroups@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 17:37 +0200
    Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-24 02:42 +1100
    RE: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 09:45 -0600
      Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-11-23 10:57 -0500
        Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 08:45 -0800
          Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 09:17 -0800
          RE: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed "Ivan Evstegneev" <webmailgroups@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 19:27 +0200
          Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-24 04:42 +0000
            Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-24 15:51 +1100
              Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-25 09:20 +1100
            Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 22:47 -0800
            Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-11-24 16:42 -0800
        Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 10:45 -0600
        Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-11-23 12:08 -0500
        Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2014-11-23 17:46 +0000

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