Guido has been pretty vocal about his preference for loops over comprehensions, so it's just a matter of personal preference. But they're also trying to use the

Guido has been pretty vocal about his preference for loops over comprehensions, so it's just a matter of personal preference. But they're also trying to use the newer pattern matching rather than duck-typing, and comprehensions don't support pattern matching (isinstance doesn't count). The pattern matching stuff is neat but seems pretty half-baked. Only available to imperative code and restricted in what can be matched. I wish they'd finish fleshing it out because right now it feels tacky. Actually my number one wish forever has been that functions would become actual first-class objects, able to be defined and manipulated during runtime at the syntax level. Would have been great for so much of my code, and the original decorator module. Things are better with the new inspect module but it's still ridiculously clunky.