Steven D'Aprano wrote:
py> def gen():
... for t in [(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')]:
... yield *t
File "<stdin>", line 3
yield *t
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Even if it was allowed, what would it mean? It could only mean "unpack
the sequence t, and collect the values into a tuple; then yield the
tuple".
To maintain the identity
list(*x for x in y) == [*x for x in y]
it would be necessary for the *x in (*x for x in y) to expand
to "yield from x".
--
Greg
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