On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Piet Delport wrote: > For generators written in this style, "yield" means "suspend > execution of the > current call until the requested result/resource can be provided", and > "return" regains its full conventional meaning of "terminate the > current call > with a given result". > > The simplest / most straightforward implementation would be for > "return Foo" > to translate to "raise StopIteration, Foo". This is consistent with > "return" > translating to "raise StopIteration", and does not break any existing > generator code. > > (Another way to think about this change is that if a plain > StopIteration means > "the iterator terminated", then a valued StopIteration, by > extension, means > "the iterator terminated with the given value".) >
It sounds like a nice idea to me. Of course, it is only useful to functions calling ".next()" explicitly; in something like a for loop, the return value would just be ignored. James _______________________________________________ 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
