On Saturday 25 July 2009 20:30:54 Michal Kwiatkowski wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to tell if a generator has been exhausted using pure > Python code? I've looked at CPython sources and it seems that > something like "active"/"exhausted" attribute on genobject is missing > from the API. For the time being I am using a simple C extension to > look at f_stacktop pointer of the generator frame, which seems to > differentiate active generators from exhausted ones. See > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ruby/pythoscope/support-python2.3/annotate/286 >/pythoscope/_util.c#L16 for complete source code. > > I may be missing something obvious here. Is there a better way to tell > if a given generator object is still active or not?
Is there a reason why you cannot just call the next method and handle the StopIteration when it happens? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list