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Via Jarno Virtanen, a comp.lang.python post explaining the origin of the term "list comprehension", Python's clever alternative syntax for filtering lists (see this chapter of Dive Into Python). The term comes from set theory; it's nice to know that stuff was worth learning after all ;)