Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:20:35 +0100, "Diez B. Roggisch" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>For a simple greenlet/tasklet/microthreading experiment I found myself in >>the need to ask the question >> >>isgenerator(v) >> >>but didn't find any implementation in the usual suspects - builtins or >>inspect. >> >>I was able to help myself out with a simple (out of my head, hope its >> >>def isgenerator(v): >> def _g(): yield >> return type(v) == type(_g()) >> >>But I wonder why there is no such method already available? >> > > Why do you need a special case for generators? If you just pass the > object in question to iter(), instead, then you'll either get back > something that you can iterate over, or you'll get an exception for > things that aren't iterable.
Because - as I said - I'm working on a micro-thread thingy, where the scheduler needs to push returned generators to a stack and execute them. Using send(), which rules out iter() anyway. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
