Iterators for 2.2 (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <7q3E6.49658$uN3.979125 at e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com>,
Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
>news:9bpho5$7j8$1 at panix2.panix.com...
>> In article <slrn9dv5st.68t.neelk at alum.mit.edu>,
>> Neelakantan Krishnaswami <neelk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>My personal suspicion (and this is just a guess) is that if
>>>syntactically lightweight generators and coroutines were added to
>>>Python, then the pressure for new features would fade.
>>
>> Generators (called "iterators") are going to be 2.2.  They'll be more
>> powerful that Icon's generators; it's not clear whether they'll be a
>> full-fledged substitute for coroutines.
>
>Cool. Presumably for 2.2 they'll be in __future__?

Depends whether they require any backward-incompatible changes.  The
current proposal on the plate is supposed to be completely backward
compatible, but actual use will determine that.
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