[Python-Dev] PEP 342 suggestion: start(), call() and unwind_call() methods (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 04:43:34 CEST 2005

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 10/8/05, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

So, instead of having "return" automatically map to "raise StopIteration" inside generators, I'd like to suggest we keep it illegal to use "return" inside a generator, and instead add a new attribute "result" to StopIteration instances such that the following three conditions hold:

# Result is None if there is no argument to StopIteration try: raise StopIteration except StopIteration, ex: assert ex.result is None # Result is the argument if there is exactly one argument try: raise StopIteration(expr) except StopIteration, ex: assert ex.result == ex.args[0] # Result is the argument tuple if there are multiple arguments try: raise StopIteration(expr1, expr2) except StopIteration, ex: assert ex.result == ex.args This precisely parallels the behaviour of return statements: return # Call returns None return expr # Call returns expr return expr1, expr2 # Call returns (expr1, expr2) This seems a bit overdesigned; I'd expect that the trampoline scheduler could easily enough pick the args tuple apart to get the same effect without adding another attribute unique to StopIteration. I'd like to keep StopIteration really lightweight so it doesn't slow down its use in other places.

True. And it would be easy enough for a framework to have a utility function that looked like:

def getresult(ex): args = ex.args if not args: return None elif len(args) == 1: return args[0] else: return args

Although, if StopIteration.result was a read-only property with the above definition, wouldn't that give us the benefit of "one obvious way" to return a value from a coroutine without imposing any runtime cost on normal use of StopIteration to finish an iterator?

Cheers, Nick.

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