On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:19 am, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 7:10:03 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> And of course, from a comp science theoretic perspective, >> generators are a kind of subroutine, not a kind of type. > > You just showed Marko a few posts back, that > A generator is a special case of an iterator. > And you wrote the iterator with 'class'. > And from python 2.2(?) classes are types.
Yes, but iterators aren't *classes*, they are instances. > So I dont know what "comp science theoretic perspective" you are > describing... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator_(computer_programming) "A generator is very similar to a function that returns an array, in that a generator has parameters, can be called, and generates a sequence of values. However, instead of building an array containing all the values and returning them all at once, a generator yields the values one at a time, which requires less memory and allows the caller to get started processing the first few values immediately. In short, a generator looks like a function but behaves like an iterator." -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
