[Python-Dev] pre-PEP: Resource-Release Support for Generators

[Armin Rigo]

Hello Samuele,

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:18:51PM +0200, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
> OTOH conflating 'with' and 'for' just for generators seems a rather ad-hoc 
> breaking of
> orthoganility of the two, you could not write anymore code like this:
> 
> g = gen()
> for v in g:
>   ... do something up to a point ...
> ...
> for v in g:
>   ...

I had thought about this. This occurs when you 'break' out of the first loop. 
I would say that NOT calling the __exit__() method in this specific case seems
quite intuitive, the 'break' meaning 'just exit from the loop now without any
further processing, skipping the 'else' part if present'.


Armin