My (late) beef with Simple Generator syntax (PEP 255)

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:02:18 -0500, Cameron Horn wrote:

>> def nullgen():
>>    raise StopIteration
>>    yield "never called"

Yuck.  How about a built-in null generator that can be assigned to any
desired name?  It's not like the implementation needs to be customized or
anything :-)

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