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Re:First Impressions of Python from a Java Developer by swannodette on Monday November 08, 2010 @02:47PM (#1883704)
This feature is of course lifted from Haskell - another jaw dropping language.
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Re:First Impressions of Python from a Java Developer by stevelosh on Monday November 08, 2010 @03:27PM (#1883847)
Yep. Python has a wonderful habit of taking the awesome features of other languages and expanding on them.

List comprehensions were added in 2.0, generator comprehensions were added in 2.4, and dictionary comprehensions came in 2.7

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Re:First Impressions of Python from a Java Developer by nickbarnwell on Monday November 08, 2010 @03:49PM (#1883943)
Just found a reason to upgrade to 2.7...
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Re:First Impressions of Python from a Java Developer by stralep on Monday November 08, 2010 @03:42PM (#1883911)
"Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

:)

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-November/...

(joke)

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