[Python-ideas] yield from multiple iterables (was Re: The async API of the future: yield-from)

[Christian Tismer]

Hmmm...

On 14.10.12 21:19, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On 15/10/12 03:15, Eric Snow wrote:
>>> On Oct 14, 2012 8:42 AM, "Guido van Rossum"<guido at python.org>  wrote:
>>>> Sadly it looks that
>>>>
>>>>     r = yield from (f1(), f2())
>>>>
>>>> ends up interpreting the tuple as the iterator, and you end up with
>>>>
>>>>     r = (f1(), f2())
>>>>
>>>> (i.e., a tuple of generators) rather than the desired
>>>>
>>>>    r = ((yield from f1()), (yield from f2()))
>>
>> How about this?
>>
>> r = yield from *(f1(), f2())
>>
>>
>> which currently is a SyntaxError in 3.3.
> I think it's too early to start proposing new syntax for a problem we
> don't even know is common at all.
>
> Greg Ewing's proposal works for me:
>
>    r = yield from par(f1(), f2())

I'm not very positive about all I've read in the last 50 hours.

The concept of generators IMHO gets overly bent towards modelling
a sensible syntax for a problem that not even had a convincing
solution in a dialect that already has full coroutines.
'par' and 'join' and friends should be considered without thinking
of generators in the first place. This is attacking too many problems
in one shot.

My approach would be to first find out how async operations should
be modelled the best under the assumption that we have a coroutine
concept that works without headaches about yielding in and out from
something to whatnot.

After that is settled and gets consensus, then I would think about
bearable patterns to implement that using generators. And when we
know what we really need, maybe considering more suitable Syntax.

my 0.2 thousand yen - chris

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