[Python-ideas] Proto-PEP on a 'yield from' statement

[Bruce Frederiksen]

George Sakkis wrote:
> - Returning a value by stuffing it in the StopIteration abuses the
> exception mechanism.
>
> Without a compelling, concrete, example I'm -1 on the return part; +1
> for the rest.
>   
In thinking about this some more, what I think makes more sense is to 
simply return the final value from close rather than attaching it to 
StopIteration.  This still leaves open the syntax to use for this inside 
the generator.  Perhaps:

return finally some_value

-bruce frederiksen