I always thought list comprehension shows the problem with Python: too many ad hoc ideas. It's a language that looks like a lot more like a sum of many tools th

I always thought list comprehension shows the problem with Python: too many ad hoc ideas. It's a language that looks like a lot more like a sum of many tools than a few well chosen orthogonal ideas. Ruby is a much better language with a much worse implementation, community, set of libraries.