In article <16272.6895.233187.510629 at montanaro.dyndns.org>,
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm not in a mood to try and explain anything in more precise terms this
> morning (for other reasons, it's been a piss poor day so far) and must trust
> your ability to infer my meaning. I have no idea at this point how to
> interpret
>
> foo[x*x for x in bar]
>
> That looks like a syntax error to me. You have a probably identifier
> followed by a list comprehension.
foo[ anything ] does not look like an identifier followed by a list, it
looks like an indexing operation. So I would interpret
foo[x*x for x in bar]
to equal foo.__getitem__(i) where i is an iterator of x*x for x in bar.
In particular if iter.__getitem__ works appropriately, then
iter[x*x for x in bar]
could be a generator comprehension and iter[1:n] could be an xrange.
Similarly sum and max could be given appropriate __getitem__ methods.
--
David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
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