"Michele Simionato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> > I wonder whether a check shouldn't just return (co_flags & 0x20), >> > which >> > is CO_GENERATOR. >> >> Makes more sense. > > Okay, but my point is that the final user should not be expected to know > about those implementation details. The one obvious way to me is to have > an > inspect.isgenerator, analogous to inspect.isfunction, inspect.ismethod, > etc. > The typical use case is in writing a documentation/debugging tool. Now I > was writing a decorator that needed to discriminate in the case it was > decorating a regular function versus a generator.
To me, another obvious way is isinstance(object, gentype) where gentype = type(i for i in []) # for instance which should also be in types module. tjr _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
