How to make an empty generator?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:15:20 -0600, Robert Kern wrote:

>>> What's the point of the wheel spinning? Did I miss something?
>>
>> I wonder whether it's for some kind of framework with a main loop like
>>
>> for it in list_of_iterables:
>>      for x in it:
>>          do_this_or_that (x)
>>
>> where, every once in a while one wants to throw some arbitrary code
>> into the process, in the form of an empty iterable with side effects.
> 
> Yes. That is exactly what the OP said in his original post:
> 
> """
> I have some generators that do stuff, then start yielding results. On
> occasion, I don't want them to yield anything ever-- they're only really
> "generators" because I want to call them /as/ a generator as part of a
> generalized system. """


But he doesn't say anything about side-effects. If you're passing 
generators around, sometimes you want an empty generator, just as 
sometimes you want an empty string, or list, or whatever.



-- 
Steven