[Python-ideas] Yield-From Example 2: Scheduler

Adam Olsen rhamph at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 04:10:17 CET 2009


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> But Python uses exceptions for errors, so ignoring
> return values is usually harmless. If you igore something
> that you shouldn't have ignored, you will usually find
> out about it pretty quickly, because your program will
> produce incorrect results.
>
> Maybe this is where your gut instinct is coming from?

No, it's more about expect return to behave like yield, as in this:

def x():
    yield 1
    yield 2
    return 3

I realize I'm losing ground though.  My argument is not as strong as I
thought it was.


-- 
Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus



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