[Python-Dev] PEP 289 - Generator Expressions (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] PEP 289 - Generator Expressions - Let's Move For ward

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue May 4 00:54:08 EDT 2004

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 09:58, Jewett, Jim J wrote:

Guido van Rossum:

My counter to that is that any use of genexps where the consumer doesn't consume (or discard) the iterator before the next line is reached is extremely advanced use. This might be worth putting in the PEP and the docs -- We are in rather dire need of docs and a revised PEP.

Indeed. The timeframe we came up with at PyCon had the generator expressions being landed "in the first week of May". At the moment the discussion seems to be spinning wheels -- it looks (to me) like there's not even 100% agreement from everyone that they should even go into 2.4 at all.

I'm not fussed if we slip a week or two here, but if it slips another 6 weeks, say, then the release time line could be in some trouble.

-- Anthony Baxter <anthony at interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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