[Python-ideas] A send() built-in function to drive coroutines

[Victor Stinner]

2015-02-16 13:53 GMT+01:00 Luciano Ramalho <luciano at ramalho.org>:
> At a high level, the behavior of send() would be like this:
>
> def send(coroutine, value):
>     if inspect.getgeneratorstate() == 'GEN_CREATED':
>         next(coroutine)
>     coroutine.send(value)

It's strange to have to sometimes run one iterations of the generator,
sometimes two iterations.

asyncio.Task is a nice wrapper on top of coroutines, you never use
coro.send() explicitly. It makes coroutines easier to use.

Victor