generator function within a generator function doesn't execute?

[Sami Hangaslammi]

thedustbustr at aol.com (TheDustbustr) wrote in message news:<20030724190941.18070.00000520 at mb-m17.aol.com>...
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> However, when run, the sleep function doesn't execute.  It doesn't even print
> "In Sleep".  It never gets called, even though I say sleep(1.5) in cutscene(). 
> Run it for yourself if you don't believe me.

Calling sleep(2.5) isn't supposed to run anything. It just creates a
generator object. Calling it from within another generator makes no
difference. You need to manually unwind the sleep generator to your
scheduler, so instead of

sleep(2.5)

do

for x in sleep(2.5): yield x