On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:03:00 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Then to chop bazillion_items to 20 items, I just write: > > @truncate(20) > def generate_bazillion_items(): > for line in bazillion_line_file: > yield itemify(line) > > When I want to run the whole file, I comment out the @truncate line, > and if I want to debug again, I just uncomment it.
By All-Father Wodan's one good eye! Why not do something like this? if __debug__: generate_bazillion_items = truncate(20)(generate_bazillion_items) Now you don't have to comment/uncomment dozens of lines all over your application, but only set a single global. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list