bool evaluations of generators vs lists
Josh Dukes
josh.dukes at microvu.com
Tue Feb 10 17:09:48 EST 2009
ahhh any! ok, yeah, I guess that's what I was looking for. Thanks.
On 10 Feb 2009 21:57:56 GMT
Steven D'Aprano <steven at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:50:02 -0800, Josh Dukes wrote:
>
> > The thing I don't understand is why a generator that has no iterable
> > values is different from an empty list.
>
> How do you know it has no iterable values until you call next() on it
> and get StopIteration?
>
> By the way, your "has_values" function is just a slower version of
> the built-in any().
>
>
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Josh Dukes
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