[Python-Dev] PEP 340 -- concept clarification

[Nick Coghlan]

> At 05:17 PM 5/3/05 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>But I kind of doubt that it's an issue; you'd have to have a
>>try/except catching StopIteration around a yield statement that
>>resumes the generator before this becomes an issue, and that sounds
>>extremely improbable.

The specific offending construct is:

   yield itr.next()

Wrapping that in StopIteration can be quite convenient, and is probably too 
common to ignore - Phillip's examples reminded me that some my _own_ code uses 
this trick.

Cheers,
Nick.

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