Generator syntax (Re: FW: FW: [Python-Dev] Simple generator implementation)

[Greg Ewing]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@effbot.org>:

> I associate "yield" with non-preemptive threading (yield
> to anyone else, not necessarily my caller).

Well, this flavour of generators is sort of a special case
subset of non-preemptive threading, so the usage is not
entirely inconsistent.

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