[Tutor] How to separate UI code from program logic?

[boB Stepp]

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 5:05 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 6 May 2018, at 23:00, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:

>>My understanding of best practice here is that I should not have any
>>print() calls inside my generate_collatz_sequence() function.  I
>>_could_ store the generated sequence in a list and return it, but that
>>does not seem like good use of RAM if some user-supplied seed value
>>led to kazillions of Collatz sequence numbers being generated.
>
> The clue is in that last word.
> Write a generator function that yields the intermediate results.

Aha!  Of course the book I am poking around in does not even cover
generator functions ...  But I will plow ahead as usual and implement
your suggestion.  Thanks, Alan!



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boB