[Python-ideas] Revised**5 PEP on yield-from
Ron Adam
rrr at ronadam.com
Thu Mar 5 19:31:38 CET 2009
Greg Ewing wrote:
> This is only a speed issue if the time taken to find the
> "top" starting from one of the "bottoms" is a significant
> component of the total running time. My conjecture is that
> it won't be, especially if you do it iteratively in a
> tight C loop.
Could it be possible to design it so that the yield path of generators are
passed down or forwarded to sub-generators when they are called? If that
can be done then no matter how deep they get, it works as if it is always
only one generator deep.
So...
result = yield from sub-generator
Might be sugar for ... (very rough example)
sub-generator.forward(this_generator_yield_path) # set yield path
sub_generator.run() # pass control to sub-generator
result = sub_generator.return_value # get return value if set
Of course the plumbing in this may takes some creative rewriting of
generators so the yield path can be passed around. Being able to get the
yield path might also be useful in other ways, such as error reporting.
Cheers, Ron
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