PEP proposal: sequence expansion support for yield statement: yield *

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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). This doesn't appear to have any syntactical collisions, as it is currently a syntax error.

Motivation: More compact notation, and the compiler can produce more efficient bytecode than the former representation (the loop overhead is omitted). This pattern is very common in recursive generators, so a compact notation would be nice.

Also, there is precedent: the proposed notation is implemented in javascript with identical semantics (though in javascript, the conventional spacing is different: yield* sequence ).

Examples:
  yield *(1,2,3)
... instead of :
  yield 1; yield 2; yield 3
... or:
  for x in (1,2,3): yield x


  yield *chain(seq1, seq2)
... instead of :
  for x in chain(seq1, seq2) yield x

~ Ken Seehart

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PEP proposal: sequence expansion support for yield statement: yield * Ken Seehart <k.seehart@partner.samsung.com> - 2016-04-20 19:34 +0000
  Re: PEP proposal: sequence expansion support for yield statement: yield * Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-04-21 10:21 +1000
    Re: PEP proposal: sequence expansion support for yield statement: yield * justin walters <walters.justin01@gmail.com> - 2016-04-21 08:19 -0700
    Re: PEP proposal: sequence expansion support for yield statement: yield * Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 01:26 +1000

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