[rdtsc]

I am a fan of dynamic functional languages, I use them more than I use Python anyway. But I think Python should stick to being Pythonic. There should be less ways of doing the same thing not more.

I don't even like the new assignment PEP because it just adds more complexity and more ways of doing the same thing. And knowing that it was the straw that broke the camel's back and pushed Guido away, makes me like it even less.

[ergothus]

...but people hating on the PEP (and refusing to accept their concerns had been considered) was the reason it drove him over the edge, so your post lamenting the issue is at the same time demonstrating the issue.

[jrs95]

I'm not talking about anything crazy here, just don't make map(), filter(), reduce() etc second class citizens and maybe even support tail call optimization. Honestly I don't know why comprehensions are so popular either, it's a slightly more convenient but less powerful construct than pure functions.

[bluecalm]

There wasn't a way of doing list comprehensions where you use the same expression on the left and right side. You needed a for loop with a temporary variable to achieve it. I think it's much more useful than map/filter for example as those are redundant if you use list comprehensions.