[Python-ideas] Cofunctions/yield from -> fibers

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Aug 14 04:01:54 CEST 2010


Scott Dial wrote:
> On 8/13/2010 4:11 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
>>That's not actually true -- a for-loop would work with any
>>iterable node object just as well.
>
> I agree that it works, but it does not avoid the recursion-depth problem
> and you pay for the decent through all of the for-loops.

To clarify, I was responding only to the point that yield-from
deals with any kind of iterator, not just another generator.
I was pointing out that, to the extent that a for-loop handles
generators, it also handles other iterables as well.

-- 
Greg



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