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Re: Comprehension with two variables - explanation needed

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On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>
> If it was complicated enough that you needed to loopify it to
> understand what it's doing, have pity on the next person who has to
> maintain your code and leave it as a loop

Well, sure. I was mostly trying to give Ivan a path out of the weeds.
Poking through the code I'm involved with at work, using a crude
measuring stick (a couple regular expressions) I found over 1400 one
line list comprehensions, those which matched this regular expression:

\[.* for .*\]

OTOH, I only found 14 with two "for" keywords:

\[.* for .* for .*\]

(There may well have been more nested loop list comprehensions, simply
because it's hard to cram the full listcomp into 80 columns, my
self-imposed column limit.)

In my experience, list comprehensions rapidly get unwieldy once you
get to nesting them. I generally unravel such items into a nested set
of for loops.

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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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