[Python-ideas] x=(yield from) confusion [was:Yet another alternative name for yield-from]

[Nick Coghlan]

Jacob Holm wrote:
> At least part of the confusion comes from the fact that if yield-from
> could somehow suppress the initial next and yield a different value
> instead (either an extra expression in yield-from or the last value
> yielded by a primed generator), there would be a simple way to write
> wrappers that could be used at the call site to handle all those cases. 
> So a feature that allowed specifying the first value to yield in the
> yield-from expression *would* be enough, but a start argument to the
> coroutine constructor isn't.

I think leaving this task to wrapper classes in the initial version of
the PEP is the right way to go at this point. Adding a "skip the initial
next and yield <expr> instead" clause later will be much easier than
trying to undo something added now if it turns out to be a mistake.

Greg's basic proposal makes the easy things easy and the difficult
things possible, so it is a very good place to start. The main change I
would like from the original version of the PEP is for caching the bound
methods to be explicitly disallowed in order to match the behaviour of
normal for loops.

Cheers,
Nick.

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