[Python-Dev] PEP 288: Generator Attributes

[Raymond Hettinger]

PEP 288 has been updated and undeferred.
Comments are solicited.

The old proposal for generator parameter passing with g.next(val)
has been replaced with simply using attributes in about the same
way as classes:

def outputCaps(logfile):
    while True:
        line = __self__.data
        logfile.write(line.upper)
        yield None
outputCaps.data = ""      # optional attribute initialization

g = outputCaps(open('logfil.txt','w'))
for line in open('myfile.txt'):
    g.data = line
    g.next()

The separate proposed for generator exceptions
is unmodified from before.