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    Issue #24400: Introduce a distinct type for 'async def' coroutines. · 5376ba96
    Yury Selivanov yazdı
    Summary of changes:
    
    1. Coroutines now have a distinct, separate from generators
       type at the C level: PyGen_Type, and a new typedef PyCoroObject.
       PyCoroObject shares the initial segment of struct layout with
       PyGenObject, making it possible to reuse existing generators
       machinery.  The new type is exposed as 'types.CoroutineType'.
    
       As a consequence of having a new type, CO_GENERATOR flag is
       no longer applied to coroutines.
    
    2. Having a separate type for coroutines made it possible to add
       an __await__ method to the type.  Although it is not used by the
       interpreter (see details on that below), it makes coroutines
       naturally (without using __instancecheck__) conform to
       collections.abc.Coroutine and collections.abc.Awaitable ABCs.
    
       [The __instancecheck__ is still used for generator-based
       coroutines, as we don't want to add __await__ for generators.]
    
    3. Add new opcode: GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER.  The opcode is needed to
       allow passing native coroutines to the YIELD_FROM opcode.
    
       Before this change, 'yield from o' expression was compiled to:
    
          (o)
          GET_ITER
          LOAD_CONST
          YIELD_FROM
    
       Now, we use GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER instead of GET_ITER.
    
       The reason for adding a new opcode is that GET_ITER is used
       in some contexts (such as 'for .. in' loops) where passing
       a coroutine object is invalid.
    
    4. Add two new introspection functions to the inspec module:
       getcoroutinestate(c) and getcoroutinelocals(c).
    
    5. inspect.iscoroutine(o) is updated to test if 'o' is a native
       coroutine object.  Before this commit it used abc.Coroutine,
       and it was requested to update inspect.isgenerator(o) to use
       abc.Generator; it was decided, however, that inspect functions
       should really be tailored for checking for native types.
    
    6. sys.set_coroutine_wrapper(w) API is updated to work with only
       native coroutines.  Since types.coroutine decorator supports
       any type of callables now, it would be confusing that it does
       not work for all types of coroutines.
    
    7. Exceptions logic in generators C implementation was updated
       to raise clearer messages for coroutines:
    
       Before: TypeError("generator raised StopIteration")
       After: TypeError("coroutine raised StopIteration")
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