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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	AlexGrig, docs@python, ezio.melotti, rhettinger, robla, westley.martinez
Date	2014-08-02.22:33:01
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Message-id	<1407018781.63.0.246151626976.issue20402@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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We do have prominent entries in the glossary and tutorial: https://docs.python.org/2.7/glossary.html#term-list-comprehension https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions Moving it earlier in the tutorial is likely to do more harm than help. In teaching Python, you need some gap between learning for-loops and learning list comprehensions (the former is a prerequisite for the latter).

We do have prominent entries in the glossary and tutorial:

https://docs.python.org/2.7/glossary.html#term-list-comprehension
https://docs.python.org/2.7/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions

Moving it earlier in the tutorial is likely to do more harm than help.  In teaching Python, you need some gap between learning for-loops and learning list comprehensions (the former is a prerequisite for the latter).

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