[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyway what I want to do is experiment with code similar to this (i.e. > same algorithm and keep the recursion) in other languages, > particularly vbscript and wondered what it would look like if it was > rewritten to NOT use the yield statement
An obvious (though memory-inefficient) replacement is to accumulate a list and return the list. Initialize a result variable to an empty list, and instead of yielding elements, append them to the result variable. Then return the result variable at the end of the function. HTH, -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list