from __future__ import generators

[David Bolen]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> "gzeljko" <gzeljko at sezampro.yu> writes:
> 
> > I just installed 2.2a1 and immediately come to
> > 'natural question':
> > 
> > Is 'from __future__ import generators' really
> > necessary ?
> 
> If enough people prefer to always have the 'yield' keyword enabled, we
> can do that.  I thought that there would be a huge opposition against
> breaking code this way, but maybe it's OK.   At least 'yield' is not a
> silent break.

No, but you'd lose the window of time during which code continued to
run but with a warning.  In terms of any transition I'd still favor
having that time period.

(I'll play a little devil's advocate though and say that I haven't
found any use of a variable name yield in some quick greps through the
majority of my local code)

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