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Author ncoghlan
Recipients falsetru, ncoghlan
Date 2011-04-28.02:53:22
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Message-id <1303959206.53.0.707913864462.issue11944@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It's not just hiding the real error, it's also saying something that isn't true. If you remove the deliberate error from the generator definition, it is clear that generators are perfectly acceptable as *arg inputs:

>>> def g(): yield 1, 2
... 
>>> list(*g())
[1, 2]
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2011-04-28 02:53:26ncoghlansetrecipients: + ncoghlan, falsetru
2011-04-28 02:53:26ncoghlansetmessageid: <1303959206.53.0.707913864462.issue11944@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-04-28 02:53:22ncoghlanlinkissue11944 messages
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