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Tue Oct 21 16:46:42 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039192.html

> Iterator expression?

Better.  Or perhaps generator expression?  To maintain the link with
generator functions, since the underlying mechanism *will* be mostly
the same.  Yes, I like that even better.

BTW, while Alex has shown that a generator function with no free
variables runs quite fast, a generator expression that uses variables
from the surrounding scope will have to use the nested scopes
machinery to access those, unlike a list comprehension; not only does
this run slower, but it also slows down all other uses of that
variable in the surrounding scope (because it becomes a "cell"
throughout the scope).

Someone could time how well

  y = 1
  sum([x*y for x in R])

fares compared to

  y = 1
  def gen():
     for x in R: yield y*y
  sum(gen())

for R in (range(N) for N in (100, 1000, 10000)).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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