[Python-Dev] Proposed alternative to __next__ and __exit__

[Oren Tirosh]

I suggest using a variation on the consumer interface, as described by
Fredrik Lundh at http://effbot.org/zone/consumer.htm :

.next() -- stays .next()
.__next__(arg) --  becomes .feed(arg)
.__exit__(StopIteration, ...) -- becomes .close()
.__exit__(..,..,..) -- becomes .feed(exc_info=(..,..,..))   

Extensions to effbot's original consumer interface:
1. The .feed() method may return a value 
2. Some way to raise an exception other than StopIteration inside the
generator/consumer function.  The use of a keyword argument to .feed
is just an example. I'm looking for other suggestions on this one.

No new builtins. No backward-compatibility methods and wrappers.

Yes, it would have been nicer if .next() had been called __next__() in
the first place. But at this stage I feel that the cost of "fixing" it
far outweighs any perceived benefit.

so much for "uncontroversial" parts!  :-)

  Oren


On 5/6/05, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Steven Bethard]
> > So, just to make sure, if we had another PEP that contained from PEP 340[1]:
> >  * Specification: the __next__() Method
> >  * Specification: the next() Built-in Function
> >  * Specification: a Change to the 'for' Loop
> >  * Specification: the Extended 'continue' Statement
> >  * the yield-expression part of Specification: Generator Exit Handling
> > would that cover all the pieces you're concerned about?
> >
> > I'd be willing to break these off into a separate PEP if people think
> > it's a good idea.  I've seen very few complaints about any of these
> > pieces of the proposal.  If possible, I'd like to see these things
> > approved now, so that the discussion could focus more directly on the
> > block-statement issues.
> 
> I don't think it's necessary to separate this out into a separate PEP;
> that just seems busy-work. I agree these parts are orthogonal and
> uncontroversial; a counter-PEP can suffice by stating that it's not
> countering those items nor repeating them.
> 
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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