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authorTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2021-02-21 02:33:25 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-02-21 02:33:25 (GMT)
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bpo-27646: Say that 'yield from' expression can be any iterable (GH-24595)
Previously, the doc at least strongly implied that it had to be an iterator.
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@@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ allowing any pending :keyword:`finally` clauses to execute.
.. index::
single: from; yield from expression
-When ``yield from <expr>`` is used, it treats the supplied expression as
-a subiterator. All values produced by that subiterator are passed directly
+When ``yield from <expr>`` is used, the supplied expression must be an
+iterable. The values produced by iterating that iterable are passed directly
to the caller of the current generator's methods. Any values passed in with
:meth:`~generator.send` and any exceptions passed in with
:meth:`~generator.throw` are passed to the underlying iterator if it has the