Re: Reinventing a more limited wheel
" There is absolutely no way to ensure that f(x) is idempotent. If you don't understand that, then step away from the keyboard. "
And this is another reason to favour the PEP -- taking the same example
results = [(x, f(x), x/f(x)) for x in input_data if f(x) > 0]
if the function f is not idempotent, then we now have the possibility of throwing a divide-by-zero exception, which would cause the whole comprehension to be binned. (E.g. first call to f(x) returns 1, but in x/f(x), f(x) returns zero.)
In the case of the assignment expression version...
results = [(x, y, x/y) for x in input_data if (y := f(x)) > 0]
... as f(x) is only evaluated once, x/y will never result in a divide-by-zero exception.
