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This is a Improvement Request or Feature Request, if you will.

IMHO, the program should employ AST instead of parsing text
    http://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html

You just have to ask Python to load the program to be converted.
Python will return an AST for the program loaded.
Then you visit the tree and generate Scala code.

This is an Improvement Request or Feature Request, if you will.

Python generators are amazing for certain kinds of applications, in particular 
those which involve some sort of delay for every chunk of information, like 
typically applications consuming data from the web or other resources from the 
network.

Scala continuations is the closest thing to Python generators.
Unfortunately, Scala continuations require a lot of boilerplate to be a viable 
solution. This article in SO explains how Python generators can be replaced by 
Scala continuations:
   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7303166/preferred-way-to-implement-yield-in-scala/11277282#11277282

Notice that Scala continuations are substantially different from Python 
generators, which means that not all converted code will work as expected or 
even compile, I guess.