Big time WTF with generators - bug?

[James Stroud]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> writes:
>> I defined a little debugging function called iterprint:
>>
>> def iterprint(thing): ...
>>        for x in thing:
>>          iterprint(x)
> 
> of course this mutates the thing that is being printed.  Try using
> itertools.tee to fork a copy of the iterator and print from that.
> I didn't look at the rest of your code enough to spot any errors
> but take note of the warnings in the groupby documentation about
> pitfalls with using the results some number of times other than
> exactly once.

Thank you for your answer, but I am aware of this caveat. Something is 
consuming my generator *before* I iterprint it. Please give it another 
look if you would be so kind.

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James Stroud
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