I have looked at generators, generator expressions, and iterators and
I try to get more familiar with these.
1. How would I loop over all (with no upper bound) integers or all
powers of two, for example?
In C it would be
for (int i = 0; ; i++) { ... } or for (int i = 1; ; i *= 2) { ... }
In Python, I could define a generator
def powers():
i = 1
while True:
yield(i)
i *= 2
for i in powers():
...
More elegant are generator expressions but I cannot think of a way
without giving an upper limit:
for i in (2 ** i for i in range(1000000)):
...
which looks ugly. Also, the double for-loop (and also the two loops
in the above exmaple, for + while in the generator) look unnatural,
somehow, i.e. loop over all elements which are created by a loop.
Is there a more beautyful way?
Steve
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