Generator question

[Timothy Wu]

On 11/26/06, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> The only thing that the last line does is *create* a new generator object.
> You
> need to actually iterate over it and yield its values. E.g.
>
>
> In [2]: def test_gen(x):
>    ...:     yield x
>    ...:     x -= 1
>    ...:     if x != 0:
>    ...:         for y in test_gen(x):
>    ...:             yield y
>    ...:
>    ...:
>
> In [3]: list(test_gen(3))
> Out[3]: [3, 2, 1]



Ha-HA, that makes perfect sense I guess. Though in my opinion the definition
makes the code a bit harder to read. Thanks for the explanation.

Timothy
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