On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:15:43 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:20:35 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>For a simple greenlet/tasklet/microthreading experiment I found myself in >>>the need to ask the question >>> >>> [snip] >> >> Why do you need a special case for generators? If you just pass the >> object in question to iter(), instead, then you'll either get back >> something that you can iterate over, or you'll get an exception for >> things that aren't iterable. > >Because - as I said - I'm working on a micro-thread thingy, where the >scheduler needs to push returned generators to a stack and execute them. >Using send(), which rules out iter() anyway.
Sorry, I still don't understand. Why is a generator different from any other iterator? Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
