[Python-ideas] Yield-From: Finalization guarantees

[Nick Coghlan]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> The part that
>> isn't clicking for me is that I still don't understand *why* 'yield
>> from' should include implicit finalisation as part of its definition.
>>
>> It's the generalisation of that to all other iterators that happen to
>> offer a close() method that seems somewhat arbitrary.
> 
> It's a matter of opinion. I would find it surprising if
> generators behaved differently from all other iterators
> in this respect. It would be un-ducktypish.
> 
> I think we need a BDFL opinion to settle this one.

It's still your PEP, so unless Guido objects to your preference, I'll
cope - I suspect either approach can be explained easily enough in the
documentation.

Cheers,
Nick.

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