[Python-ideas] x=(yield from) confusion [was:Yet another alternative name for yield-from]

[Greg Ewing]

Jacob Holm wrote:

> The argument that we have no value to send before we have yielded is 
> wrong.  The generator containing the "yield-from" could easily have a 
> value to send (or throw)

No, Guido is right here. You *can't* send a value (other
than None) into a generator that hasn't reached its first
yield (try it and you'll get an exception). The first
call has to be next().

> and if iter(EXPR) returns a coroutine or a 
> non-generator it could easily be ready to accept it.

If it's ready to accept a send, it must have already
yielded a value, which has been lost, when it should have
been yielded to the caller of the delegating generator.

 > In an earlier thread we concluded that if
> the thrown exception is a StopIteration and the *same* StopIteration 
> instance escapes the throw() call, it should be reraised rather than 
> caught and turned into a RETVAL.

That part is right.

> Next issue is that the value returned by it.close() is thrown away by 
> yield-from.

Since I don't believe that close() should be expected to
return a useful value anyway, that's not a problem.

-- 
Greg