[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v4

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 7 19:52:57 EDT 2017


Elvis Pranskevichus wrote:
> By default, generators reference an empty LogicalContext object that is 
> allocated once (like the None object).  We can do that because LCs are 
> immutable.

Ah, I see. That wasn't clear from the implementation, where

     gen.__logical_context__ = contextvars.LogicalContext()

looks like it's creating a new one.

However, there's another thing: it looks like every
time a generator is resumed/suspended, an execution
context node is created/discarded.

-- 
Greg


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