[Python-ideas] Revised**11 PEP on Yield-From

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Apr 18 03:15:10 CEST 2009


Jacob Holm wrote:

> Note that treating None as missing might actually be useful by making it 
> easier to "hide" the throw() or close() method of a base class from 
> yield-from.  IIRC there is a precedent for treating None this way in the 
> handling of hash().

In the case of hash() there's a specific reason for wanting
to be able to hide the base method. You'd have to justify
wanting to be able to do the same for send() and throw()
in particular.

-- 
Greg



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