Recursive function returning a list

[Boris Borcic]

Hello Bruno,

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> Boris Borcic wrote:
>>> Do you have any ideas?
>>
>> you could use a recursive generator, like
>>
>> def genAllChildren(self) :
>>     for child in self.children :
>>         yield child
>>         for childchild in child.genAllChildren() :
>>             yield childchild
> 
> 
> Or how to *not* address the real problem...
> 
> Boris, using a generator may be a pretty good idea, but *not* as a way
> to solve a problem that happens to be a FAQ !-)
> 

Sorry, but I don't understand your reasoning. How can you exclude that the OP 
/may/ find that a generator neatly solves his problem ? The use of a default 
value was not an end in itself, was it ?- and the quirks of default values being 
FAQ stuff don't change that. Sure if nobody had covered that aspect, but a 
couple other posters did...

Mmmmhhh somehow it feels like if there is any issue here, it is about defending 
the credo "there ought to exist only one obvious way to do it" ?...

Cheers, BB
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