[issue24088] yield expression confusion

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[issue24088] yield expression confusion

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 6e59d82d3d09 by Guido van Rossum in branch 'default': Issue 24088: Clarify semantics of yield expression (merge from 3.4). https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6e59d82d3d09 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue24088] yield expression confusion

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset b87d96e0708e by Guido van Rossum in branch '3.4': Issue 24088: Clarify semantics of yield expression. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b87d96e0708e -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue24088] yield expression confusion

R. David Murray added the comment: I don't think anything about frames is guaranteed as part of the language, so I'm not sure that mention of it belongs in the description. Personally, I find your reformulation more confusing that the original with 'a' replaced by 'the'. -- _

[issue24088] yield expression confusion

Jim Jewett added the comment: OK, then how about Current: """ When a generator function is called, it returns an iterator known as a generator. That generator then controls the execution of a generator function. The execution starts when one of the generator’s methods is called. """ Proposed:

[issue24088] yield expression confusion

R. David Murray added the comment: Yes, and it is not using generator function in two different ways: it is literally the case that calling the generator function returns a generator object, which in turn controls the execution of the generator function. The text then goes on to explain how t

[issue24088] yield expression confusion

Guido van Rossum added the comment: You can't just drop the middle sentence. Awkward though it is, it is attempting to describe that the generator object controls suspension and resumption of the stack frame representing execution of the generator function's body. -- _

[issue24088] yield expression confusion

New submission from Jim Jewett: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#yield-expressions Current: """ When a generator function is called, it returns an iterator known as a generator. That generator then controls the execution of a generator function. The execution starts when on