Understanding this generator function

[Ben Finney]

Hussein B <hubaghdadi at gmail.com> writes:

> This is an example of a generator function [using coroutine
> behaviour]:
[…]

> I'm not able to understand how this generator function is working,
> would you please me (what happens when calling next/send)?

The behaviour you're seeing was introduced in PEP 342, "Coroutines via
Enhanced Generators" <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0342>,
which documents the behaviour.

Read that PEP, experiment further, and then ask any questions that you
still have after that.

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Ben Finney