On 11/29/07, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may sound like a strange question but that's probably only because I > don't know the proper terminology. I have an iterable object, like a list, > and I want to perform a transform on it (do an operation on each of the > elements) and then pass it onto something else that expects and iterable. > I'm pretty sure this something else doesn't need a list, either, and just > wants to iterate over elements. > Now, I could just make a list, using a list comprehension, performing my > operation on each element, and then pass that list on, knowing that it is > iterable. However, I was wondering if there was a way I can do virtually > this without having to actually allocate the memory for a list. Creating a > stock iterator or generator or whatever it's called, with a passed in > operation?
Well I think what you want is to use "()" instead of "[]" >>> l = (i for i in range(1,20)) >>> l <generator object at 0xb7f482ac> Cheers, -- Amit Khemka -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
