Commit b9b281b7 authored by Nick Coghlan's avatar Nick Coghlan

Add some simple examples to the PEP 380 section of What's New

parent 98e20701
...@@ -262,9 +262,56 @@ part of its operations to another generator. This allows a section of code ...@@ -262,9 +262,56 @@ part of its operations to another generator. This allows a section of code
containing 'yield' to be factored out and placed in another generator. containing 'yield' to be factored out and placed in another generator.
Additionally, the subgenerator is allowed to return with a value, and the Additionally, the subgenerator is allowed to return with a value, and the
value is made available to the delegating generator. value is made available to the delegating generator.
While designed primarily for use in delegating to a subgenerator, the ``yield While designed primarily for use in delegating to a subgenerator, the ``yield
from`` expression actually allows delegation to arbitrary subiterators. from`` expression actually allows delegation to arbitrary subiterators.
For simple iterators, ``yield from iterable`` is essentially just a shortened
form of ``for item in iterable: yield item``::
>>> def g(x):
... yield from range(x, 0, -1)
... yield from range(x)
...
>>> list(g(5))
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
However, unlike an ordinary loop, ``yield from`` allows subgenerators to
receive sent and thrown values directly from the calling scope, and
return a final value to the outer generator::
>>> def accumulate(start=0):
... tally = start
... while 1:
... next = yield
... if next is None:
... return tally
... tally += next
...
>>> def gather_tallies(tallies, start=0):
... while 1:
... tally = yield from accumulate()
... tallies.append(tally)
...
>>> tallies = []
>>> acc = gather_tallies(tallies)
>>> next(acc) # Ensure the accumulator is ready to accept values
>>> for i in range(10):
... acc.send(i)
...
>>> acc.send(None) # Finish the first tally
>>> for i in range(5):
... acc.send(i)
...
>>> acc.send(None) # Finish the second tally
>>> tallies
[45, 10]
The main principle driving this change is to allow even generators that are
designed to be used with the ``send`` and ``throw`` methods to be split into
multiple subgenerators as easily as a single large function can be split into
multiple subfunctions.
(Implementation by Greg Ewing, integrated into 3.3 by Renaud Blanch, Ryan (Implementation by Greg Ewing, integrated into 3.3 by Renaud Blanch, Ryan
Kelly and Nick Coghlan, documentation by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Kelly and Nick Coghlan, documentation by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and
Nick Coghlan) Nick Coghlan)
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