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Tue Oct 21 19:05:07 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039215.html

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 00:11, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > I think it's well worth overcoming come "community resistance
> > to new syntax" to get this kind of advantage easily.  The trick
> > of binding outer-scope variables as default args is neat but
> > buys less than the pure idea of just using a generator rather
> > than a list comprehension.
>
> Thanks for the measurements!
>
> Is someone interested in writing up a PEP and taking it to the
> community?  Or do I have to do it myself (and risk another newsgroup
> meltdown)?

I'm interested, if it can wait until next week (in a few hours I'm
flying off for a trip and I won't even have my laptop along).  What's
the procedure for requesting a PEP number, again?

Alex

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