Re: Re[4]: Re: New stackless proposal

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:

> So a terminating thread will raise an exception on all threads
> waiting on it?

Yes.  I can't think of any alternative.  Otherwise they would sit there
forever.

> def genfun():
>     sleep(1.0)  # A very intensive computation
>     # Return without calling yield
> generator = Thread(genfun)
>
> iter = generator().iter_()  # Generator goes to sleep
> iter.next()                 # Now yielding to sleeping generator
> thread. Will I hang?

You will hang for 1.0 seconds and then throw a stop exception.