[Tutor] Difference between 'yield' and 'print'

[Kent Johnson]

Luke Paireepinart wrote:

> Refer to http://docs.python.org/ref/yield.html for information about yield.
> Disclaimer: The following information I'm going to present you I came up 
> with after reading that short explanation of 'yield' so it may not be 
> exactly correct.

There is a longer explanation here:
http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/whatsnew/node5.html

> So you could think of the loop like this:
> gen = some_function(5) #create the generator
> while 1:
>     try:
>        print gen.next()
>     except: #we ran out of things to generate (the generator stopped 
> yielding results -- supposedly it raises an error here?)
>        print "End of generator."
>        break
> 
> Anyway, I've never used them but that sounds like a reasonable way for 
> them to work.

Yes, that is pretty much what is going on. The generatory will raise 
StopIteration when there are no more values.

Kent