[Python-ideas] Yield-From: Handling of GeneratorExit

[Nick Coghlan]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greg Ewing wrote:
>>> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think I'd prefer to see some arbitrary limit (500 seems like a nice
>>>> round number) on the number of times that GeneratorExit would be thrown
>>>> before giving up
>>> Is it really worth singling out this particular way
>>> of writing an infinite loop?
>>>
>>> If you're catching GeneratorExit then you presumably
>>> have the need to clean up and exit on your mind, so
>>> I don't think this is a likely mistake to make.
>> I came up with a different answer that I like better - don't mess with
>> GeneratorExit and close() at all, and instead provide next_return(),
>> send_return() and throw_return() methods that *expect* to get a
>> GeneratorReturn exception in response (and complain if it doesn't happen).
>>
>> (I expand on this idea in a lot more detail in my reply to Jim)
> 
> Since there are so many threads, let me repeat that I'm -1 on adding
> more methods, but +1 on adding them to the docs as recipes.

If we end up adding a support library for coroutines (depending on how
the discussion of the @coroutine problem goes), then that may be another
place for them.

Fattening the generator API even further bothered me a bit as well, so
I'm actually happy to be overruled on that particular idea :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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