from __future__ import generators not working in IDLE

[Guido van Rossum]

"Grace" <nospam at nospam.com> writes:

> "from __future__ import generators" does not work in IDLE which is included
> in Python 2.2a1.
> 
> See the copy&pasted text from the real IDLE running:
> 
> >>> from __future__ import generators
> >>>
> >>> <string>:2: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the
> future
> <string>:2: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
> <string>:2: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
> def f():
>  yield 1
> 
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>>
> 
> Is there any workarounds?

Not yet (apart from adding "from __future__ import generators" to the
top of codeop.py).  But in python-dev Michael Hudson is working on a
fix to codeop that will let us select compilation flags.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)