[ I've got no idea of your skill level, but since you say you feel a bit
lost I'll take baby steps here. Apologies if it's too low or high :-)
I'm also taking baby steps because less people understand generators than
they might. After all, most new programmers often want something like
gene
Thank you all for some precisions about yield and generators.
But I would like to underline that I am *not* a complete newbie,
and I understand this stuff in general. I read the yield.html
material quite a time ago. But thank you for the PEP, I should
have scanned it more carefully.
My problem was
Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
> I thought that the following sequence
>
> gl=0
> def gen(x):
> global gl
> gl=x
> yield x
>
> s=gen(1)
>
> suspends the generator just before the yield, so after the
> assignment of s gl becomes 1.
>
> Well, no. It is still zero. If I put
>
> print "s
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:48:03 +0100, Jerzy Karczmarczuk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> before the yield, this doesn't get executed either. *EVERYTHING*
> from the beginning until the yield gets executed only upon s.next().
>
> Could you tell me please where can I read something in depth about the
>
Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
> Could you tell me please where can I read something in depth about the
> semantics of generators? I feel a bit lost.
the behaviour is described in the language reference manual:
http://docs.python.org/ref/yield.html
"When a generator function is called, it re
