[Tutor] how to separate the digital and the alphabeta
Dave Angel
d at davea.name
Thu Nov 3 18:09:32 CET 2011
On 11/03/2011 12:37 PM, lina wrote:
> <snip>
>
> I have another question, regarding the generator,
>
> def translate_process(dictionary,tobetranslatedfile):
> results=[]
> with open(tobetranslatedfile,"r") as f:
> results=(dictionary[line.split()[2]] for line in f)
> print(list(results))
> print(len(list(results)))
>
>
> Here the print(list(results))
> did print a long list out,
> but why later print(len(list(results)))
> print 0 out?
>
> sorry, seems that way is very trivial.
>
> Best regards,
> _
resuts is a generator, and they can only be iterated through once. So
if you need it more than once, convert it to a list first, and save that
list. or just use a list comprehension in the first place, (just change
the parenthese to square brackets)
--
DaveA
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