On 04/20/2016 12:34 PM, Ken Seehart wrote:
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Currently the common pattern for yielding the elements in a sequence
> is as follows:
for x in sequence: yield x
I propose the following replacement (the result would be identical):
yield *sequence
The semantics are somewhat different from argument expansion (from
> which the syntax is borrowed), but intuitive: yield all of the elements
> of a sequence (as opposed to yield the sequence as a single item).
Your examples do not make clear what your result should be. If you mean
the results are exactly the same you can get that behavior with
yield from iter(x)
which, while being slightly longer, has the advantage of already
working. ;)
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