Elegantly subsplitting a sequence

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth martin z:
> from http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/yield.html
> 
> The yield statement is not allowed in the try clause of a try ... finally
> construct. The difficulty is that there's no guarantee the generator will
> ever be resumed, hence no guarantee that the finally block will ever get
> executed.
> 
> is this false?  You use it in such a structure.

That's why I said my first example wouldn't compile, in the blurb
you quoted.  The fixed version uses yield only in the finally
block, which is fine.

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Steven Taschuk                                     staschuk at telusplanet.net
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