Big time WTF with generators - bug?

James Stroud jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu
Wed Feb 13 04:14:31 EST 2008


Paul Rubin wrote:
> James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> writes:
>> I can see I didn't explain so well. This one must be a bug if my code
>> looks good to you.
> 
> I didn't spot any obvious errors, but I didn't look closely enough
> to say that the code looked good or bad.
> 
>> Conclusion: something consumes my generator going from inside the loop
>> to outside.
> 
> I'm not so sure of this, the thing is you're building these internal
> grouper objects that don't expect to be consumed in the wrong order, etc.
> 
> Really, I'd try making a test iterator that prints something every
> time you advance it, then step through your function with a debugger.

Thank you for your suggestion. I replied twice to your first post before 
you made your suggestion to step through with a debugger, so it looks 
like I ignored it.

Thanks again.

James

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