List comprehensions leak their loop variable in Python2: how making it be compatible with Python3

Question

I just learnt from Why do list comprehensions write to the loop variable, but generators don't? that List comprehensions also "leak" their loop variable into the surrounding scope.

Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13) 
>>> x = 'before'
>>> a = [x for x in (1, 2, 3)]
>>> x
3

This bug is fixed in Python3.

Python 3.4.3 (default, Oct 14 2015, 20:28:29) 
>>> x = 'before'
>>> a = [x for x in (1, 2, 3)]
>>> x
'before'

What is the best way to make Python2 be compatible with Python3 at this point?

Answer 1

The best way is usually to just not reuse variable names like that, but if you want something that gets the Python 3 behavior in both 2 and 3:

list(x for x in (1, 2, 3))

Answer 2

@mgilson's comment is probably the truth, but if you want to write code that works in both python2 and python3, you could wrap a generator function in a list function, Example:

Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13) 
>>> x = 'before'
>>> a = list(x for x in (1, 2, 3))
>>> x
'before'