[Python-Dev] genexps Was: "groupby" iterator

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Sat Nov 29 22:31:46 EST 2003


[Raymond Hettinger]
>> Unless someone in the know volunteers, it will need to wait until
>> Christmas vacation.  Currently, the implementation is beyond my skill
>> level.  It will take a while raise my skills to cover adding new
>> syntax and what to do in the compiler.

[Neil Schemenauer]
> I wonder if we should try to finish the new compiler first.

That's the rub -- if I have time to move 2.4 along, I'll first give it to
advancing the AST branch.  Teaching the current front end new parsing tricks
would be an exercise is obsolescence.




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