2.2 features

[Jeff Shannon]

Tom Good wrote:

> "Nick Perkins" <nperkins7 at home.com> wrote in message

>
> > How about generators, who's tried them out?
>
> [snip]
>
> I like generators a lot.  Here's a fun one:
>
> #------ begin code
> [snip]
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     g = fib()
>     for i in range(9):
>         print g.next(),
>
> #------ end code

Haven't looked into this in detail, or even downloaded 2.2 yet, but...

couldn't that be written as:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    for i in fib():
        print i,

???

(being under the impression that the main point of iterators is convenient for-loop usage...)

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
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