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

[Christian Tismer]

Hi Greg,

On 20.10.12 02:50, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Christian Tismer wrote:
>> Actually I would like to have a python context where it gets into
>> "async mode" and interprets all functions defined in that mode as 
>> generators.
>
> That sounds somewhat similar to another idea I proposed a while
> ago:
>
> There would be a special kind of function called a "cofunction",
> that you define using "codef" instead of "def". A cofunction
> is essentially a generator, but with a special property: when
> one cofunction calls another, the call is implicitly made as
> a "yield from" call.
>

Whow, I had a look at the patch. Without talking about the syntax,
this is very close to what I'm trying without a patch.
No, it is almost identical.
> This scheme wouldn't be completely transparent, since the
> cofunctions have to be defined in a special way. But the calls
> would look like ordinary calls.
>
> There's a PEP describing a variation on the idea here:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3152/
>
> In that version, calls to cofunctions are specially marked
> using a "cocall" keyword. But since writing that, I've come to
> believe that my original idea (where the cocalls are implicit)
> was better.

Yes, without the keyword it looks better. Would you raise an
exception if something is called that is not a cofunction? Or
would that be an ordinary call?

The only difference is that I'm not aiming at coroutines in
the first place, but just having the concept of a *suspendable*
function.

What has happened to the PEP, was it rejected?

ciao - chris

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