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by michaelteter 1266 days ago
And yet, in the production Python codebases I've worked with, list comprehensions are rarely seen. Usually it's typical loop iterations. I wonder why that is?...
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empthought 1265 days ago
This says much more about you and the developers and codebases you work with than anything to do with Python list comprehensions.

Coming from a point of zero knowledge of the codebase, I picked Flask. I picked the cli.py module in Flask. And what do I find?

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

https://github.com/pallets/flask/blob/main/src/flask/cli.py#...

The keyword "for" occurs twice as often in comprehensions and generator expressions as it does in "typical loop iterations!"

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