[Python-Dev] Please reconsider PEP 479. (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 02:29:59 CET 2014


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Greg <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

The Abstract claims that the proposal will "unify the behaviour of list comprehensions and generator expressions", but it doesn't do that.

I don't know that it completely unifies the behaviours, but it does merge them on the specific situation of a leaking StopIteration. With the original code examples that sparked this all off (see the first footnote in the PEP), current CPython has the list-comp form terminate cleanly, while the genexp form infinitely loops. With the POC patch on the issue tracker, both forms cause RuntimeError. Is there a better word than "unify" for that?

ChrisA



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list