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Sat Feb 25 01:48:23 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/061806.html

On 2/24/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> > The more practical complaint is that list comprehensions use the same
> > namespace as the block that contains them.
>  > ... but I suspect we're stuck with the
> > current behavior for backwards compatibility reasons.
>
> There will be no backwards compatibility in 3.0,
> so perhaps this could be fixed then?

Yes that's the plan. [f(x) for x in S] will be syntactic sugar for
list(f(x) for x in S) which already avoids the scope problem.

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[Python-Dev] PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes