Bradley Hintze wrote: > I may be having a brain fart, but is it at all possible to have a > function first return a value then continue its calculation. Like this > simple example: > > my_var = 5 > def my_function(): > return my_var > my_var +=1 > > This obviously won't work as written but is there a cleaver way around > this.
>>> n = 1 >>> def f(): ... global n ... try: ... return n ... finally: ... n += 1 ... >>> f() 1 >>> f() 2 >>> f() 3 However, I would prefer the generator as Aidan has shown because it doesn't rely on a global variable. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
