New submission from Camion <camion_spam-pyb...@yahoo.com>:
I'm new with Python and I've been blocked for day on a "TypeError: 'Fraction'
object is not iterable" error message, while the problem turned out to be
completely different.
I don't even know to what programming case this message would have been the
right interpretation, but in this situation, it was completely wrong and I
believe it can cause much loss of time for inexperienced python programmer (at
least, I believe it should document alternative causes)
Here is a sample code to show how misleading it can be (It's a program to
compute pi with fractions)
from fractions import Fraction
def order(x):
r, old_r, n, old_n = 2, 1, 1, 0
while (x>=r):
r, old_r, n, old_n = r*r, r, 2*n, n
return order(x >> old_n) + old_n if old_n > 0 else 0
def terms(m, n, i):
return Fraction(4 * m, n**(2*i+1) * (2*i+1))
def terms_generator(exp_prec):
ws = [ [terms(parm[1], parm[2], 0), 0] + list(parm)
for parm in ((1, 44, 57),
(1, 7, 239),
(-1, 12, 682),
(1, 24, 12943))]
digits = 0
while digits<exp_prec:
curws = max(ws, key=lambda col: col[0])
digits = int(0.30103 *
(order(curws[0].denominator))
- order(curws[0].numerator))
yield curws[2] * curws[0] #, digits
curws[2] = -curws[2]
curws[1] += 1
curws[0] = terms(curws[3], curws[4], curws[1])
expected_precision = 100
pi = 0
for term, dgts in terms_generator(expected_precision):
pi += term
print("{} digits".format(dgts))
print("pi = 3.{}".format(int((pi-3)*10**expected_precision)))
Obviously, the problem came from having forgotten one argument in the "yield"
line, which has nothing to do with a problem of iterability of my type.
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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 307892
nosy: Camion
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Misleading "not iterable" Error Message when generator return a "simple"
type, and a tuple is expected
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6
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<https://bugs.python.org/issue32259>
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