[Python-Dev] metaclass insanity (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:32:57 +0100

Aahz wrote:

Hmmmm... I'm surprised that you're surprised.

Yeah, I see now that I was somewhat naive...

Here's my slide from OSCON2002:

Generators simpler No need to explicitly maintain state [ ... ]

Well, in this particular example no state is maintained in either version. Generators are simply a higher level way of building an iterator, because there's no need to explicitly raise StopIteration.

Just