About that 'yield' word

[Alex Martelli]

Tobiah wrote:

> 
> def maker():
>          for i in range(100):
>                  yield i
> 
> 
> foo:4: Warning: 'yield' will become a reserved keyword in the future
>    File "foo", line 4
>      yield i
>            ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Python 2.2.2
> 
> 
> ???

You seem to have omitted the necessary statement at the start
of your module (in Python 2.2):
    from __future__ import generators

Alternatively, upgrade to 2.3, and you won't need that statement
any more.


Alex