Conclusion: The Not So Good Stuff

General language features should not be designed and implemented with too narrow a view. Examples:

  • The operators one can overload in Python are limited, largely to the traditional numerical ones.

  • Python's generators don't go far enough: more general coroutines would help a lot.

New Models for Processing Text and XML with Python Sam Wilmott
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