Re: how to make a generator use the last yielded value when it regains control

John Salerno wrote:
Actually I was just thinking about this and it seems like, at least for
my purpose (to simply return a list of numbers), I don't need a
generator.

Yes, if it's just a list of numbers you need, a generator is more
flexibility than you need. A generator would only come in handy if,
say, you wanted to give your users the option of getting the next N
items in the sequence, *without* having to recompute everything from
scratch.


My understanding of a generator is that you do something to
each yielded value before returning to the generator (so that you might
not return at all),

A generator is just an object that spits out values upon request; it
doesn't care what the caller does with those values.

There's many different ways to use generators; a few examples:

# Get a list of the first 10
from itertools import islice
m = [n for n in islice(morris(1), 10)]

# Prompt user between each iteration
for n in morris(1):
if raw_input('keep going? ') != 'y':
break
print n

# Alternate way of writing the above
g = morris(1)
while raw_input('keep going? ') == 'y':
print g.next()

--Ben

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