On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:37 PM, <seasp...@gmail.com> wrote: > take the following as an example, which could work well. > But my concern is, will list 'l' be deconstructed after function return? and > then iterator point to nowhere? > > def test(): > l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] > return iter(l) > def main(): > for i in test(): > print(i)
Perfectly safe. Python guarantees that nothing can ever point to "nowhere"; everything that might be looking for something else will hold a reference to it, so the thing referred to will hang around. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
