[Python-Dev] Simple generators, round 2

[Greg Ewing]

Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>:

> If "yield" is a keyword, then any function that uses yield is a
> generator.  With this policy, it's straightforward to determine which
> functions are generators at compile time.

But a function which calls a function that contains
a "yield" is a generator, too. Does the compiler need
to know about such functions?

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