Pythoncal, anyone? (My (late) beef with Simple Generator syn tax (PEP 255))

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:15:51 -0500, sismex01 wrote:

>> I have an idea: Suppose there were a "don't" statement that could be
>> put in front of another statement to, effectively, comment it out, e.g.
>> 
>>   def foo():
>>     # This function does nothing
>>     don't print "Hello"
>> 
>> Then an empty generator could be written
>> 
>>   def g():
>>     don't yield None

Python already has a "don't" statement.  It is spelled "if 0".

def null(): if 0: yield None

Tested with python-2.2.2, and works perfectly.

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