"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 1) Every time you access gen.next you create a new method-wrapper >> object. > > Why is that? I thought gen.next is a callable and gen.next() actually > advances the iterator. Why shouldn't gen.next always be the same object?
If you explicitly or implicitly (via for loop) calculate gen.next exact once (as I presume for loops do, and as I would for explicit while loop), then it is. When you keep a reference to the wrapper, and call it repeatedly via that wrapper, then all is as you expect. next_x = genfunc(*args).next while True: x = next_x() # same next_x each time <do something with x> Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
