send() to a generator in a "for" loop with continue(val)??

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 09:47:56 EDT 2009


On Apr 18, 3:03 pm, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
> In article <gsc7e1$rj6$0... at news.t-online.com>,
> Peter Otten  <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> >If it were up to me I'd rip out send() immediatly. At first I thought I
> >would see a compelling use case and be enlightened, but it never happened.
>
> Too late -- it's likely to get an upgrade for 3.1 and 2.7.  Basically,
> send() is useful for coroutines, and if you haven't yet readhttp://dabeaz.com/coroutines/
> you really should (assuming you want to continue arguing).
> --

I suspect Peter knows everything about coroutines and still he is not
convinced about
.send. FWIW, I am sympathic with him.

 M. Simionato



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