I was just experimenting in Python with different syntax for passing in a generator as an argument to a function, and I realized tha开发者_开发百科t although I've been doing this,
>>> sum((j for j in xrange(5)))
10
this works as well:
>>> sum(j for j in xrange(5))
10
This is tested on Python 2.6.6 on Linux. What's going on under the hood? Is it just syntactic sugar? After all, usually an unwrapped generator is indecipherable to the interpreter:
>>> j for j in xrange(5)
File "<stdin>", line 1
j for j in xrange(5)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I'm sure reading the python grammar will answer that question.
If you prefer plain English over grammars: PEP-289 explains it.
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