In this case, that is great, since I'd much prefer
yield *gen1(arg)
than
yield_all gen1(arg)
I'm guessing the * syntax is pretty unlikely to win Guido's approval. There have been a number of requests[1][2][3] for syntax like:
x, y, *rest = iterable
for unpacking a variable sized list (where *rest would work in an analogous way to what it does in the args of a def.) Guido has consistently rejected these proposals, e.g.:
"I think it's not worth adding now, and if you don't hear from me again on this topic it's because I haven't changed my mind..."
My suspicion is that if he doesn't like the * syntax when there's a close parallel to the argument parsing usage, he's not likely to like it when there isn't one.
STeVe
[1]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-November/030349.html [2]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/046684.html [3]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-November/049895.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
