[Python-Dev] feature request: inspect.isgenerator (original) (raw)

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 15:25:23 CEST 2006

Terry Reedy <tjreedy udel.edu> writes:

tout court?? is not English or commonly used at least in America

It is French:

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_561508877/tout_court.html

I thought it was common in English too, but clearly I was mistaken.

Ok, you mean generator function, which produces generators, not generators themselves. So what you want is a new isgenfunc function. That makes more sense, in a sense, since I can see that you would want to wrap genfuncs differently from regular funcs. But then I wonder why you don't use a different decorator since you know when you are writing a generator function.

Because in a later refactoring I may want to replace a function with a generator function or viceversa, and I don't want to use a different decorator. The application I had in mind was a Web framework where you can write something like

@expose def page(self): return 'Hello World!'

or

@expose def page(self): yield 'Hello ' yield 'World!'

indifferently. I seem to remember CherryPy has something like that.

      Michele Simionato

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