generator with subfunction calling yield

[andy.leszczynski]

Hi,

I might understand why this does not work, but I am not convinced it
should not - following:

def nnn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

def nn():
def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

print 'before'
_nn()
print 'after'
for i in nnn():
print i

for i in nn():
print i

gives results:

$ python f.py
inside
1
before
after
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "f.py", line 18, in ?
for i in nn():
TypeError: iteration over non-sequence

while I would expect:
$ python f.py
inside
1
before
inside
1
after

Any insight?

andy

[James Stroud]

an**************@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I might understand why this does not work, but I am not convinced it
should not - following:

def nnn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

def nn():
def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

print 'before'
_nn()
print 'after'
for i in nnn():
print i

for i in nn():
print i

gives results:

$ python f.py
inside
1
before
after
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "f.py", line 18, in ?
for i in nn():
TypeError: iteration over non-sequence

while I would expect:
$ python f.py
inside
1
before
inside
1
after

Any insight?

andy

In the commented line, you are only creating a generator. This is not
equivalent to calling its "next" function, i.e., nothing will be
"yielded" the way you have written it.
def nn():
def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

print 'before'
_nn() # <== just makes a generator
print 'after'

James

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[Rob Williscroft]

wrote in news:11*********************@h48g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com in
comp.lang.python:

Any insight?

From the docs:

<quote>
The yield statement is only used when defining a generator function, and is
only used in the body of the generator function. Using a yield statement in
a function definition is sufficient to cause that definition to create a
generator function instead of a normal function.
</quote>

Note that its when a function defention contains a yeild statement
(expression) that the defenition is taken to be a generator function.

def nn():

def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

print 'before'

_nn()
print 'after'

So tha above (nn()) isn't a generator as it doesn't contain a
yield statement.

Note also that the call to _nn() returns a generator, it isn't a
regular function call.

Here is nn() re-writen to return what you may have originaly expected:

def nn():
def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

print 'before'

for i in _nn():
yield i

print 'after'

So to forward another generator you need to iterate over it and
yield each element, just as you would for any other iterable.

Rob.
--
http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/

[Matimus]

The issue is that nn() does not return an iterable object. _nn()
returns an iterable object but nothing is done with it. Either of the
following should work though:

def nn():
def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1
print 'before'
for i in _nn():
yield i
print 'after'

Or you could just return the iterable object that was returned by
_nn():

def nn():
def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1
print 'before'
retval = _nn():
print 'after'
return retval

For clarification, using yeild creates a generator. That generator
returns an iterable object. Nesting generators does not somehow
magically throw the values up the stack. I made the same mistake when I
first started messing with generators too.

-Matt

an**************@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I might understand why this does not work, but I am not convinced it
should not - following:

def nnn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

def nn():
def _nn():
print 'inside'
yield 1

print 'before'
_nn()
print 'after'
for i in nnn():
print i

for i in nn():
print i

gives results:

$ python f.py
inside
1
before
after
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "f.py", line 18, in ?
for i in nn():
TypeError: iteration over non-sequence

while I would expect:
$ python f.py
inside
1
before
inside
1
after

Any insight?

andy