Steven D'Aprano wrote:
One specific thing I took out of this is that only the main body of a Python generator can yield.
I can see how that would be a difficulty, particularly when you move away from simple generators yielding values to coroutines that accept values, but isn't that solved by the "yield from" syntax?
Only for limited values of "solved" -- to my mind, it's still a rather unnatural way to write coroutine code. Perhaps I should point out that the way I envisage using generators as lightweight threads, the yields will typically be neither sending nor receiving values, but simply serving as suspension points. If a generator is actually producing values, then the phrase "yield from" has meaning, but if it's not -- if you're just using it to calculate a return value or cause a side effect -- it reads like nonsense. Maybe I'm more sensitive to such considerations than other people, but it bothers me. -- Greg