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

[Christian Tismer]

On 19.10.12 07:15, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Christian Tismer wrote:
>
>> - generators are able to free the stack, when they yield. But when they
>>    are active, they use the full stack. At least when I follow the 
>> pattern
>>    "generator is calling sub-generator".
>>    A deeply nested recursion is therefore something to avoid. :-(
>
> Only if yield-from chains aren't optimised the way they
> used to be.

Does that mean a very deep recursion would be efficient?

I'm trying to find that change in the hg history right now.

Can you give me a hint how your initial implementation
works, the initial patch source?
>
> ...
>> But this function that wants to
>> switch needs to pass the fact that it wants to switch, plus the target
>> somewhere. As I understood it, I would need to yield that to the
>> driver function.
>
> You understand incorrectly. In my scheduler, the yields
> don't send or receive values at all. Communicating with the
> scheduler, for example to tell it to allow another task to
> run, is done by calling functions. A yield must be done to
> actually allow a switch, but the yield itself doesn't send
> any information.

I have studied that yesterday already in depth and like that quite much.
It is probably just the problem that I had with generators from their
beginning.

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