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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-03-03 21:31:50 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-03-03 21:31:50 (GMT)
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Expand a bit on genexp scopes.
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@@ -230,14 +230,15 @@ generator are those that would be produced by considering each of the
evaluating the expression to yield a value that is reached the innermost block
for each iteration.
-Variables used in the generator expression are evaluated lazily when the
-:meth:`next` method is called for generator object (in the same fashion as
-normal generators). However, the leftmost :keyword:`for` clause is immediately
-evaluated so that error produced by it can be seen before any other possible
-error in the code that handles the generator expression. Subsequent
-:keyword:`for` clauses cannot be evaluated immediately since they may depend on
-the previous :keyword:`for` loop. For example: ``(x*y for x in range(10) for y
-in bar(x))``.
+Variables used in the generator expression are evaluated lazily in a separate
+scope when the :meth:`next` method is called for the generator object (in the
+same fashion as for normal generators). However, the :keyword:`in` expression
+of the leftmost :keyword:`for` clause is immediately evaluated in the current
+scope so that an error produced by it can be seen before any other possible
+error in the code that handles the generator expression. Subsequent
+:keyword:`for` and :keyword:`if` clauses cannot be evaluated immediately since
+they may depend on the previous :keyword:`for` loop. For example:
+``(x*y for x in range(10) for y in bar(x))``.
The parentheses can be omitted on calls with only one argument. See section
:ref:`calls` for the detail.