Greg Ewing wrote:
I've had another idea about what to call yield-from:
y = pass g(x)
Is y a list of values sent to g? Excuse me if I'm a bit lost there. I haven't played around with the new generator features yet. I'm thinking if a in "a = yield expr" is the value sent in, and 'y = pass g(x)' iterates all of g, before continueing, then y would have all of the values sent to generator g. Or would it be the last value send to g or the value returned from g?
which means "run this generator, passing through any sent/yielded values etc." It's short, it's suggestive, it doesn't use any new keywords, and there's no danger of confusing it with 'yield'.
How about something like this instead: yield expr for next_val from g(X) Where next_value comes from g(), and expr is the value yielded out. Having it resemble a generator expression, makes it clearer it iterates until complete. The idea of generators working as simple threads is cool, but my mental picture of that has probably been a bit unrealistically simple. But I'm still hopeful for a simple way to do it. My wish is to be able to define a generator, and use a decorator or some syntax at define time to make it run in such a way as to buffer at least one value. That is it runs (in the back ground) until it reaches a yield statement instead of waiting for the .next() method to be called and running to the next yield statement. One thing that always bothered me with generator functions is that they are not explicitly defined. Having the presence of yield to determine if they are a generator or not, seems a bit implicit to me. I'd much prefer a new keyword, 'defgen' or something like it instead of reusing 'def'. To me, generators are different enough from functions to merit their own defining keyword. Or maybe it's better to define them as an object to start with? class mygen(generator): ... class mygen(threaded_generator): ... I would be +1 for an objective way to define generators. (Is there a way to do that already?) Cheers, Ron