[Python-ideas] How assignment should work with generators?

[Greg Ewing]

Kirill Balunov wrote:
> So someone too perlish 
> clever can assume that with the proposed syntax:
> 
>  >>> def gen():
>  >>>     for i in ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']:
>  >>>         v = x if 'x' in globals() else 'var '
>  >>>         yield v + i
> 
>  >>> x, y = gen()
>  >>> x
> var a
>  >>> y
> var ab

There's no need for that to happen. It can still unpack all the values
it needs before performing any assignments.

-- 
Greg