[XML-SIG] Deep copy of an element from one document to another

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 09:52, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> uche wrote:
> 
> > Before I gave up, I considered a hack that would probably work,
> > but was too ugly for contemplation:
> > 
> > exec("yield")
> > 
> > I decided against this  :-)
> 
> so did Guido:
> 
> >>> def bar():
> ...      yield 10
> ...
> >>> bar()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "<stdin>", line 2, in bar
>   File "<string>", line 1
> SyntaxError: 'yield' outside function
> 
> (the compiler looks for a yield keyword when compiling the
> function body.  if found, it creates an iterator factory, not
> an ordinary function)

Ah.  Makes perfect sense.  SO I guess I'm glad I didn't venture down
that road.

Does anyone have any tricks they've used for dealing with syntax skew
like this?


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