Screwing Up looping in Generator

[Erik]

On 03/01/17 23:05, Deborah Swanson wrote:
> And yes, we usually used for loops for generators, unless you don't know
> when the generator will be exhausted. As in this case, where the number
> of files the generator can provide is unknown. Then we used the while
> True, break on StopIteration method.

Out of interest, *why* was it deemed necessary to do something different if you 
don't know how many items the generator will generate? Was any rationale given 
for that?

for x in foo:
   bar(x)

... where foo is any iterable (something that has a __iter__ method defined - 
including generators) will just bind each value in turn to 'x' and will exit 
when the StopIteration exception is raised under the covers by the iterator 
that is iterating over the iterable.

Some generators are infinite (and their iterator will never raise a 
StopIteration exception).

E.