[Python-Dev] PEP 380 (yield from a subgenerator) comments

[Steve Holden]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
>> (Well here is Greg's requested use case for .send(). :-)
> 
> There was a complaint that my return-value-with-send
> example was too much of a coroutine scenario, so I
> was hoping to find something un-coroutine-like. But
> if coroutines are the main uses for send in the first
> place, then it seems my example is fine as it is.
> 
> BTW, I've thought of an answer as to why one would
> want to write a parser using send(). In the non-send()
> version I had to make the scanner a global variable
> in order to avoid passing it around among all the
> parsing functions. The send() technique avoids having
> to do either of those things.
> 
Someone pointed out in my tutorial today that the circuits module makes
heavy use of the generators' two-way communications capability. Maybe of
you looked at the code you would find low-hanging fruit you could pick
for sensible use cases.

regards
 Steve
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