[Tutor] 2.7.3 generator objects

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/09/12 06:44, Ray Jones wrote:
> I was playing with os.walk today. I can use os.walk in a for loop (does
> that make it an iterator or just an irritable? ^_^), but if I assign
> os.walk to 'test' (test = os.walk(<path>)), that variable becomes a
> generator object that does not work in a for loop.


It does for me....

 >>> home = os.walk('/home/alang/src/Python')
 >>> for root,dirs,files in home:
...     print root
...
/home/alang/src/Python
/home/alang/src/Python/modcopy
/home/alang/src/Python/modcopy/src
 >>>

What happened when you tried?

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