Greg Ewing wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> (Well here is Greg's requested use case for .send(). :-) > > There was a complaint that my return-value-with-send > example was too much of a coroutine scenario, so I > was hoping to find something un-coroutine-like. But > if coroutines are the main uses for send in the first > place, then it seems my example is fine as it is. > > BTW, I've thought of an answer as to why one would > want to write a parser using send(). In the non-send() > version I had to make the scanner a global variable > in order to avoid passing it around among all the > parsing functions. The send() technique avoids having > to do either of those things. > Someone pointed out in my tutorial today that the circuits module makes heavy use of the generators' two-way communications capability. Maybe of you looked at the code you would find low-hanging fruit you could pick for sensible use cases.
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