yield

[km]

Hi gerrit,

i ran the snippet but i am sorry, i couldnt get what u were saying.
kindly enlighten,
regards,
KM

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:59:21PM +0100, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> > i didnt understand the purpose of  'yield' keyword and the concept of 'generators' in python.  can someone explain me with a small example how  generators differ from normal function calls?
> > kindly enlighten
> 
> You can see 'yield' as a continuable function:
> 
> def f():
>     yield time.time()
>     yield time.time()
>     yield time.time()
> 
> now f() will return a generator, with a .next() method. Try:
> g = f()
> g.next()
> g.next()
> g.next()
> 
> on the interactive prompt, and see what happens...
> 
> yours,
> Gerrit.
> 
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