[Python-ideas] Possible PEP 380 tweak (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Oct 28 17:04:55 CEST 2010

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Yep, we've basically agreed on that as the way forward as well. We have a small tweak to suggest for PEP 380 to avoid losing the return value from inner close() calls,

This is my "gclose()" function, right? Or is there more to it?

and I've cc'ed Greg directly on the relevant message in order to move that idea forward (and bring the python.org version of the PEP up to date with the last posted version as well).

Greg's been remarkably quiet on this thread even though I cc'ed him early on. Have you heard back from him yet?

That should provide a solid foundation for experimentation in user code in 3.3 without overcomplicating PEP 380 with stuff that will probably end up being YAGNI.

I would be in favor of adding an introspection API to distinguish these four states and I think it would be a fine thing to add to Python 3.2 if anyone finds the time to produce a patch (Nick? You showed what these boil down to.) I've created a tracker issue proposing a simple inspect.getgeneratorstate() function (issue 10220).

I added a little something to the issue.

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