can generators be nested?

[news.west.cox.net]

This doesn't work, but is there any elegant way to do something like this?

def gen2():
yield "hello"

def gen1():
gen2()
yield "world"

for i in gen1(): print i

---- output ----
hello
world

I'm doing it this way now:

def gen2():
yield "hello"

def gen1():
for i in gen2(): yield i
yield "world"

[Peter Otten]

news.west.cox.net wrote:

This doesn't work, but is there any elegant way to do something like this?

def gen1():
for i in gen2(): yield i
yield "world"

For this special case, you might find itertools.chain() useful:

from itertools import chain

def gen1():
yield "hello"

def gen2():
yield "world"

for s in chain(gen1(), gen2()):
print s

Peter