In scrapy 1.3, what is the difference between a yield request and a return request?

Question

It seems they are providing the same function, ultimately returning a dict or item through a pipeline or feed. Is there a reason I would use one over the other?

Answer 1

In contrast to "return", "yield" doesn't exit the function and continues with the your for-loop. If you use "return", your for-loop will finish after the first iteration.

For more information: What does the "yield" keyword do in Python?