[Python-Dev] PEP 380 - return value question and prototype implementation (was Thoughts fresh after EuroPython)

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/24/2010 11:21 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:51 PM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com>  wrote:

>> By the way, the PEP's "optimized" implementation could probably be done just
>> by making generator functions containing yield-from statements return an
>> object of a different type than the standard geniter.

+ 1

> Not a bad idea.

I have not read the PEP thoroughly enough to understand the new behavior 
and suggest another name, but I would really like to not have to change 
current references to 'generator instances' in texts to "generators 
instances created by generator functions that only contain 'yield' and 
not 'yield from'".

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Terry Jan Reedy