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What is special about Python's yield statement compared to the ones in Ruby, C#, and other languages?

• ams6110 17y ago
  Also Lua
  • seiji 17y ago
    I'm not sure why you were down voted. An excellent overview of coroutines in general, and specifically as they are used in Lua, is http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/MCC15-04.pdf http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/MCC15-04.pdf
• camccann 17y ago
  More significantly, continuations are a strict superset of coroutines, so standard Python is actually less powerful in this regard than languages with full continuation support, which if memory serves me includes Ruby, Smalltalk, and Scheme among others.
  • m0th87 17y ago
    Python has coroutines as of 2.5: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342/
  • joechung 17y ago
    Unfortunately, continuations are not supported in Ruby as of 1.9. They might come back in 2.0 though.
• wglb 17y ago
  Er, limitations of my knowledge, as I have done more in python than the other two. My bad.