[Brett C.] > > Been rather quite around here lately so I just wanted to do a quick check to > > see what the status is on PEPs 342 and 343. I noticed Nick's PEP is still > > not > > up. Probably too busy with that fix for genexps in the AST branch, huh, > > Nick? =)
[Nick Coghlan] > Something like that. . . still, I finally got around to fixing the formatting > in > the text file and sending it back to David :) > > > Guido, you need something hashed out from us at this point, or do you have > > this > > all settled in your head and are just waiting for time to lock it down in > > the > > PEP? Or should the PEPs be changed from draft to final and an > > implementation > > (which I am *not* volunteering for =) is now needed? > > There's a generator finalisation PEP to come from Raymond, and Guido has made > some comments on that front that probably need to be folded into PEP 343. Yeah, I'm mostly waiting for Raymond to make the changes to PEP 288. I guess the flap over Decimal's constructor (nicely concluded by Mike Cowlishaw -- we should invite him to do a keynote on EuroPython next year) and the uncertainty of the possibility to call close() from the destructor may have slowed that down. I wonder if we can make progress by leaving that final part (automatic invocation of close() upon destruction) out -- I don't think that anything in the rest of the spec would have to change if we can't call close() automatically. If Raymond would rather defer to me, I can give it a shot in a revised version of PEP 343, at the same time as finishing up some other loose ends there (e.g. I'd like to switch allegiance to 'with'). > And implementations will probably have to wait for the AST branch anyway. . . That's fine. But don't underestimate the VM work needed! I looked at what it would take to add an optional argument to <generator>.next() so that yield could return a value, and realized that I don't know my way around ceval.c any more... :-( If people are interested in sprinting on this at EuroPython I could be available for some time, but we'll need someone more knowledgeable about ceval.c to kick-start the work. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
