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Thu Oct 20 01:17:05 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057462.html

> We yield values from inside for loops all over the place, but the
> yielded value is very rarely just the index value (only 1 of 14 yields)
> , but something calculated from the index value, so the new syntax would
> not be useful, unless it was something that provided access to the index
> item as a variable, like:
> 
> yield foo(i) for i in x
> 
> which barely saves you anything (a colon, a newline, and an indent).
> (hey wait, isn't that a generator comprehension? 

Here's a use case:

	def preorder(tree):
		if tree:
			yield tree
			yield from preorder(tree.left)
			yield from preorder(tree.right)

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