I wish they'd leave the math notation as is. Haskell's and Erlang's notations which keep it (maybe with slight modifications) are so much nicer and readable.

Erlang [1]:

    [X || X <- [1,2,a,3,4,b,5,6], X > 3].

    Pythagorean triplets

    [ {A,B,C} ||
        A <- lists:seq(1,N),
        B <- lists:seq(1,N),
        C <- lists:seq(1,N),
        A+B+C =< N,
        A*A+B*B == C*C 
    ].

[1] http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/list_comprehensio...

That's because Python's list comprehensions were derived from Haskell's implementation: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsHaskell#List_Comprehens...:

As per https://wiki.haskell.org/List_comprehension , many Haskell users prefer to use do syntax (indeed I wasn't aware that the list comprehension syntax existed).

Agreed, I never use list comprehensions in Haskell. I feel like they're almost always harder to read.