generator function

[Michael Peuser]

By chance I posted two examples of infinite generators some hours ago
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I fond Devid Mertz's artikel quite instructive:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pycon?t=grl,l=252,p=it
erators%3E.

Kindly
Michael

"chansky" <tom_chansky at rocketmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I read the following link about generator:
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0255.html
> but I am still not so clear on the use/purpose of a generator function
> other than the fact that a generator can retain the state of the local
> variables within the fuction body.  Can someone out there shed some
> lights on this topic or share about how/when you would ever use a
> generator function.