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authorNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2012-01-13 11:43:40 (GMT)
committerNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2012-01-13 11:43:40 (GMT)
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Implement PEP 380 - 'yield from' (closes #11682)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/dis.rst b/Doc/library/dis.rst
index cb429c8..5ba66cb 100644
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@@ -431,6 +431,13 @@ the stack so that it is available for further iterations of the loop.
Pops ``TOS`` and yields it from a :term:`generator`.
+.. opcode:: YIELD_FROM
+
+ Pops ``TOS`` and delegates to it as a subiterator from a :term:`generator`.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.3
+
+
.. opcode:: IMPORT_STAR
Loads all symbols not starting with ``'_'`` directly from the module TOS to the
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index 49cec1e..a9a16d3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -250,7 +250,16 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually raised.
.. exception:: StopIteration
Raised by built-in function :func:`next` and an :term:`iterator`\'s
- :meth:`__next__` method to signal that there are no further values.
+ :meth:`__next__` method to signal that there are no further items to be
+ produced by the iterator.
+
+ The exception object has a single attribute :attr:`value`, which is
+ given as an argument when constructing the exception, and defaults
+ to :const:`None`.
+
+ When a generator function returns, a new :exc:`StopIteration` instance is
+ raised, and the value returned by the function is used as the
+ :attr:`value` parameter to the constructor of the exception.
.. exception:: SyntaxError