On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Victor Eijkhout <s...@sig.for.address> wrote:
> So I have a generator, either as a free function or in a class and I
> want to generate objects that are initialized from the generated things.
>
> def generator():
> for whatever:
> yield something
> class Object():
> def __init__(self):
> self.data = # the next thing from generator
>
> I have not been able to implement this elegantly. For external reasons
> the following syntax is unacceptable:
>
> for g in generator():
> ob = Object(g)
>
> I really want to be able to write "Object()" in any location and get a
> properly initialized object.
>
> Hints appreciated.
>
> Victor.
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> Victor Eijkhout -- eijkhout at tacc utexas edu
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You likely want a class variable:
#!/usr/bin/python
def generator():
i = 0
while True:
yield i
i += 1
class Object:
gen = generator()
def __init__(self):
self.data = Object.gen.next()
def __str__(self):
return str(self.data)
o1 = Object()
o2 = Object()
o3 = Object()
print o1
print o2
print o3
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