iterator expression - please explain

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> with Python 2.4a0 (CVS 2004/05/24)
> I get
> 
> def myfun(myarg):
> 	for z in myarg:
> 		print z
> 
> myfun(x^2 for x in xrange(10))
> 2
> 3
> 0
> 1
> 6
> 7
> 4
> 5
> 10
> 11
> 
> I expected the sequence  0,1,4,9,....
> What am I missing and what's going on here?

^ is the bitwise exclusive or operator. You want exponentiation ...
which is **.

myfun(x**2 for x in xrange(10))

Tim Delaney