Generators and their next() and send() methods

[Thomas Mlynarczyk]

Hello,

I was playing around a bit with generators using next() and send(). And 
I was wondering why an extra send() method was introduced instead of 
simply allowing an argument for next().

Also, I find it a bit counter-intuitive that send(42) not only "sets" 
the generator to the specified value, but yields the next value at the 
same time.

As an exercise, I wanted to somehow "modify" a generator so that it 
would have a next() method accepting an argument, something like

@myway
def gen():
     pass

But I failed to come up with an implementation of the myway() function.

Any comments and/or suggestions?

Greetings,
Thomas

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