Opposite of yield?

[Dave Benjamin]

"Bob Gailer" <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote in message
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> At 01:40 PM 9/10/2003, achrist at easystreet.com wrote:
> >The yield statement looks to be a big step toward some kind of
> >lightweight concurrency-oriented programming in python.  Is there
> >any similarly nice way to do the opposite of yield, just sit around
> >(perhaps in the middle of a loop) and wait until some other routine
> >(unknown to the waiting module) hurls a value in?
>
> ...
>
> Perhaps a new Python statement "suck"?

Oh come on, now, just because Java does it...