[Python-ideas] Revised**12 PEP on Yield-From

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 23 02:53:02 CEST 2009


Erik Groeneveld wrote:

> the readRe generator must be able to
> indicate that it has superfluous data, and this data must be processed
> by other generators.
> 
> Have you though about this?  How would you solve it?

I think you're expecting a bit much from yield-from.

In a situation like this, I wouldn't use yield to
receive the values. I'd read them from some kind of
buffering object that allows peeking ahead however
far is needed.

-- 
Greg




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