[Python-ideas] Possible PEP 380 tweak
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Oct 31 02:09:26 CEST 2010
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> A different approach to fixing this is for the throwing code to keep
> throwing EOFError until the generator stops yielding values:
That's precisely what I would recommend.
> This solution doesn't quite work though, because the count returned
> will include the nodes that were yielded while the stack of generators
> was winding down.
>
> My pragmatic solution for this is to change the
> protocol so that stopping the generator means that the node yielded
> last should not be included in the count.
This whole example seems contrived to me, so it's hard to
say whether this is a good or bad solution.
> I propose to
> modify g.close() to keep throwing GeneratorExit until the generator
> stops yielding values, and then capture the return value from
> StopIteration if that is what was raised. The beauty is then that the
> PEP 380 expansion can stop special-casing GeneratorExit: it just
> treats it as every other exception.
This was actually suggested during the initial round of
discussion, and shot down -- if I remember correctly, on the
grounds that it could result in infinite loops. But if you're
no longer concerned about that, it's worth considering.
My concern is that this would be a fairly substantial change
to the intended semantics of close() -- it would no longer be
a way of aborting a generator and forcing it to clean up as
quickly as possible.
But maybe you don't mind losing that functionality?
--
Greg
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