Andrew McNabb suggested I take a look at the python-ideas thread about yield-from because I have written a little framework called Weightless that supports decomposing a program into generators. I am aware that I am a bit late, but here is my two cents. I read the PEP and the discussions (most of it, to be fair) and I compared it to what I have been creating the last couple of years. For one thing, it is certainly not easy to create a comprehensible way of decomposing programs into generators, especially in the presence of exceptions. It took me two years to understand it, and I have coded it into a single generator called 'compose' (http://www.weightless.io/compose). As some people wanted to see an implementation of 'yield from': here is one that actually uses the normal yield and just assumes any generator is to be descended into. (http://weightless.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/weightless/trunk/weightless/_compose.py?revision=17&view=markup) 'compose' allows one to decompose a program into generators, just like it has been proposed. As was is also questioned why all the complexity is needed. I believe it is necessary to create an clear, abstract, comprehensible and consistent programming interface. Consider these examples: Many programmers would expect this to work: def myHandler(): try: request = yield from readRequest() except: handle error But it is really not working without catching exceptions from readRequest() and forward them to myHandler(). Again, many programmers would expect this to work: def a(): yield from b() def b(): yield from c() def c(): raise Exception('b') yield 1 You would like to see a stack trace like: Traceback (most recent call last): File "example.py", line 34, in list(compose(a())) File "example.py", line 27, in a yield b() File "example.py", line 29, in b yield c() File "example.py", line 32, in c raise Exception('b') Exception: b but you will see this, for more of less the same reason as why you weren't able to catch exceptions in the first place: Traceback (most recent call last): File "probeer.py", line 34, in list(compose(a())) File "probeer.py", line 32, in c raise Exception('b') Exception: b We succeeded to create a rather complicated 'compose' that give an intuitive decomposition tool for programmers and we are using it at a daily basis. (see link above) One of the main advantages (besides lightweight threading) is the use of JSP style pipelines. Things like for exampe an HTTP protocol handler are much easier (have a more friendly flow, as Klaas van Schelven puts it) to create than with callbacks. An simple example can bee seen here: http://weightless.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/weightless/trunk/examples/callbacksvsgenerator.py?revision=9&view=markup I've set this up for the Dutch Python Usergroup and it demonstrates the idea. I really would be glad if something like 'yield from' becomes part of the language. I would love to cooperate during the realization and testing so I can validate my own bakery of the last years and perhaps contribute something? Erik Groeneveld