[Python-ideas] Yield-from: Details to be decided

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 23:15:18 CET 2009


Raising an exception seems more sane right now

On Feb 20, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>  
wrote:

> I've got to the point in the implementation where I
> need to decide what to do if you send() a value to
> a generator that's delegating to something that
> doesn't have a send() method.
>
> Possibilities include:
>
> * Ignore the value and call next() instead
>
> * Raise an exception
>
> What do people think? I'm inclined to raise an
> exception for the time being, since we can always
> relax it later if we want. Also, doing so is more
> consistent with the idea of the caller talking
> directly to the sub-iterator.
>
> -- 
> Greg
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