On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Calvin Spealman
The more I follow this thread the less I understand the point of introducing a new use for yield-from in this discussion.
+1. To me, "yield from" is just a tool that brings generators back to parity with functions when it comes to breaking up a larger algorithm into smaller pieces. Where you would break a function out into subfunctions and call them normally, with a generator you can break out subgenerators and invoke them with yield from. Any meaningful use of "yield from" in the coroutine context *has* to ultimate devolve to an operation that: 1. Asks the scheduler to schedule another operation 2. Waits for that operation to complete Guido's approach to that problem is that step 1 is handled by calling functions that in turn call methods on a thread-local scheduler. These methods return Future objects, which can subsequently be yielded to the scheduler to say "I'm waiting for this future to be set". I *thought* Greg's way combined step 1 and step 2 into a single operation: the objects you yield *not only* say what you want to wait for, but also what you want to do. However, his example par() implementation killed that idea, since it turned out to need to schedule tasks explicitly rather than their being a "execute this in parallel" option. So now I'm back to think that Greg and Guido are talking about different levels. *Any* scheduling option will be able to be collapsed into an async task invoked by "yield from" by writing: def simple_async_task(): return yield start_task() The part that still needs to be figured out is how you turn that suspend/resume communications channel between the lowest level of the task stack and the scheduling loop into something usable, as well as how you handle iteration in a sensible way (I described my preferred approach when writing about the API I'd like to see for an async version of as_completed). I haven't seen anything to suggest that "yield from"'s role should change from what it is in 3.3: a way to factor out generators into multiple pieces with out breaking send() and throw(). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia