Actually, with a minor tweak this gets even more readable - result = [something(value) + value*2 for value in values] I find indenting the

Actually, with a minor tweak this gets even more readable - result = [something(value) + value*2 for value in values] I find indenting the subcaluse makes my eye flow naturally over the code. I'm normally doing this in perl, and often end up with functionalish code that looks like my @result = map { something($_) + $_*2 } grep { valid_candidate($_) } @all_candidates; but the same principle seems to apply nicely to both languages.