On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:36:29 +0100, Marcin Szamotulski wrote: > Here is another example which I came across when playing with > generators, the first function is actually quite useful, the second > generator is the whole fun: > > from functools import wraps > def init(func): > """decorator which initialises the generator """ > @wraps(func) > def inner(*args, **kwargs): > g = func(*args, **kwargs) > g.send(None) > return g > return inner > > @init > def gen(func): > x = (yield) > while True: > x = (yield func(x)) > > > now if you have function f > def f(arg): > return arg**2 > > then calling f(5) is the same as > > g = gen(f) > g.send(5)
I think you must be missing an important part of the trick, because calling f(5) returns 25. It's not: @gen def f(arg): return arg**2 because that raises TypeError. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list