Tom Plunket wrote: > For enrichment purposes, is there a way to do this sort of thing with > a generator? E.g. something like: > > def SentenceGenerator(): > words = ['I', 'have', 'been', 'to', 'the', 'fair'] > for w in words: > yield w > > message = "%s %s %s %s" > > print message % SentenceGenerator() > > (I ask because the above doesn't work)?
Use tuple(SentenceGenerator()). A generator is just another object, so using it with the % operator tries to substitute it at one value. (Even with this fix, though, your message didn't have enough formatters.) -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
