On Apr 15, 10:23 am, Anton Vredegoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently also fascinated by the new generator possibilities, for > example sending back a value to the generator by making yield return a > value. What I would like to use it for is when I have a very long > generator and I need just a slice of the values. That would mean running > through a loop, discarding all the values until the generator is in the > desired state and only then start doing something with the output. > Instead I would like to directly set or 'wind' -like a file- a generator > into some specific state.
Maybe you should start by developing a design pattern first and publish it in the Cookbook. I have the fuzzy impression that the idea you are after, requires more powerfull control structures such as delimited continuations that are beyond ths scope of Pythons simple coroutines. Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
