[Python-ideas] Revised revised revised PEP on yield-from

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 18 04:29:20 CET 2009


Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Also, it would seem you cannot write
> functions running in lightweight threads that are also "ordinary"
> generators, since yield is reserved for "calling" the scheduler.

Yes, that's a problem. I don't have a good answer
for that at the moment.

BTW, I have another idea for an example (a thread
scheduler and an example using it to deal with
sockets asynchronously). Is anyone still interested,
or have you all seen enough already?

-- 
Greg



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