About that 'yield' word

[Andrew Koenig]

>> > def maker():
>> >          for i in range(100):
>> >                  yield i
>> > 

David> I guess this was just thrown together as an example of "yield",
David> rather than real code, but:

David> def maker():
David>     return range(100)

David> seems a little less contorted...

Maybe so, but it behaves differently so direct comparisons aren't
particularly helpful:

>>> def maker():
...     for i in range(100):
...         yield i
... 
>>> def maker1():
...     return range(100)
... 
>>> maker()
<generator object at 0x1d80f8>
>>> maker1()
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99]

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Andrew Koenig, ark at acm.org