On 10/30/2010 07:35 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Ron Adam
wrote: However, I think sentinel values are likely a better way to handle this in a pure PEP 380 context.
Sentinel values aren't always better because they require a extra comparison on each item.
Yep, Guido's example made me realise I was wrong on that front.
BTW: A sentinal could still work, and the 'except <exception>' could be optional. The finish function isn't needed in this one. def gtally(end_tally): # Tallies numbers until sentinel is passed in count = tally = 0 while 1: value = yield if value is end_tally: break count += 1 tally += value yield count, tally def gaverage(end_avg): yield from gtally(end_avg) yield tally / count def main(): g = gaverage(None) next(g) for x in range(100): g.send(x) return g.send(None) Using sentinels not always wrong either. The data may have natural sentinel values in it. In those cases, value testing is what you want. I would like to be able to do it both ways myself. :-) Cheers, Ron