yield_all needed in Python

Douglas Alan nessus at mit.edu
Tue Mar 1 19:43:06 EST 2005


Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:

> Guido has generally observed a parsimony about the introduction of
> features such as the one you suggest into Python, and in particular
> he is reluctant to add new keywords - even in cases like decorators
> that cried out for a keyword rather than the ugly "@" syntax.

In this case, that is great, since I'd much prefer

   yield *gen1(arg)

than

   yield_all gen1(arg)

anyway, as someone else suggested in this thread (followed by a
demonic laugh).  The only reason I mentioned "yield_all" is because
there was a preexisting discussion that used "yield_all".

|>oug



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