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Re: yield expression

From "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: yield expression
Date 2013-02-26 11:34 -0500
Organization National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID <kgio69$5i7$1@theodyn.ncf.ca> (permalink)
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On 24/02/2013 7:36 PM, Ziliang Chen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> When I am trying to understand "yield" expression in Python2.6, I did the following coding. I have difficulty understanding why "val" will be "None" ? What's happening under the hood? It seems to me very time the counter resumes to execute, it will assign "count" to "val", so "val" should NOT be "None" all the time.
>
> Thanks !
>
> code snippet:
> ----
>   def counter(start_at=0):
>       count = start_at
>       while True:
>           val = (yield count)
>           if val is not None:
>               count = val
>           else:
>               print 'val is None'
>               count += 1

Perhaps it's becaoue (teild count) is a statement.  Statements do not 
return a value.

Colin W.
>

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yield expression Ziliang Chen <zlchen.ken@gmail.com> - 2013-02-24 16:36 -0800
  Re: yield expression "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-02-26 11:34 -0500
    Re: yield expression Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 09:50 -0700
    Re: yield expression Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-26 12:05 -0500
    Re: yield expression "Vytas D." <vytasd2013@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 17:07 +0000
      Re: yield expression "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-02-26 13:44 -0500
        Re: yield expression Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-26 21:59 -0500
      Re: yield expression "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-02-26 13:44 -0500

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