PEP 255: Simple Generators

[Neil Schemenauer]

Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> New users should not be using generators -- it's an advanced control
> structure with some interesting uses, [...]

I strongly disagree with this point.  New users SHOULD be using
generators.  I believe they are applicable in a surprising number of
causes and are no harder for new users to learn than a number of other
language features.  They are certainly simpler than threads.

  Neil