On Aug 4, 12:39 pm, william tanksley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What's one of them then?
>
> I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean.
>
> Meanwhile, more pertinently: I did get my generator working, and then
> I replaced it with a class that did the same thing in less than a
> quarter of the number of lines. So... I'm not going to worry about
> that anymore. My use case obviously wasn't the right one for them.
>
> I'm still curious, though, whether anyone's written any code that
> actually uses yield _and_ send() to do anything that isn't in the
> original PEP.
>
> > - Paddy.
>
> -Wm
I have. An iterator that could backtrack itself without the user
having to remember previous states. It would just send back something
like reader.send('prev_token') or reader.send(-1).
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