design question: generator object with other attributes

[Alex Martelli]

Alan Isaac <aisaac at american.edu> wrote:

> Essentially I want a generator that I can query about
> its characteristics.  (E.g., a random number generator
> that I want to be able to ask about is distributional
> parameters.)
> 
> I am thinking of a class that wraps a generator.
> An object of this class will have a ``next`` method that simply
> returns the value the object get by calling the wrapped
> generator.
> 
> A reasonable approach?

Sure, given the undiscussed constraints.

> 
> Thanks,
> Alan Isaac
> 
> PS Here is a useless class to illustrate the basic idea
> that you could have both attribute access and a
> generator-connected ``next`` method.
> 
> class Start2Stop:
>         def __init(start,stop):
>                 self.start = start
>                 self.stop = stop
>                 self.numgen = (i for in in xrange(start,stop))
>         def next(self):
>                 return self.numgen.next()

Don't forget to add:

def __iter__(self): return self


Alex.