Jacob Holm wrote:
Except you now have one extra function for exactly the same task, just with a different calling convention.
I don't see anything wrong with that. If you look in the stdlib, there are plenty of places where alternative APIs are provided for the same functionality, e.g. in the re module you have the module-level functions as well as the match object methods. I would rather have a couple of functions written in a straightforward way than rely on a magic wrapper to artificially munge them into one. Transparent is better than opaque.
The "suppress initial next()" feature *would* have helped, by enabling you to write a generic wrapper to use at the call site that could do exactly that.
Now you're just moving the wrappers from one place to another. I can write a wrapper to convert any lookahead taking parsing function into a non-lookahead one: def expect(f): first = yield return yield from f(first) So at the cost of just one extra function, I can call any of my parsing functions using either style. -- Greg