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Results from two Python courses:
* In terms of teaching gexexps, there was no net gain or loss. When genexps are show side-by-side with list/dict/set comps the symmetric relationship was obvious regardless of terminology.
* In terms of being able to search StackOverflow, blog posts, and external resources, the new terminology made the resources unfindable.
* When using the new terminology, I did get questions that never came up before, "why don't the parentheses mean tuple-comprehension".
Based on those results, I recommend we keep the terminology the same as it is now. The loss of searchability isn't worth it (there doesn't seem to be any upside) and it is concerning that a new category of confusion (list/tuple comprehension) seems to be arising from the change in terminology. |
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2018-08-14 00:53:51 | rhettinger | set | recipients:
+ rhettinger, brett.cannon, docs@python, serhiy.storchaka, GeekyShacklebolt |
2018-08-14 00:53:51 | rhettinger | set | messageid: <1534208031.62.0.56676864532.issue34117@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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