On Jun 23, 2018, at 21:11, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:

He's asking for an async version of the 'iter' builtin, presumably
something like:
async def aiter(async_callable, sentinel):
   while True:
       value = await async_callable()
       if value == sentinel:
           break
       yield value
-n

 

Yes, exactly (thanks, Nathaniel). Wouldn't that be a useful built-in?

(Greg, I too would be surprised if this were the first time this idea has been raised, but I looked before posting and couldn’t immediately find prior discussion.)

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