> To get the individual lines you have to yield them
>
> for line in lines_gen:
> yield line
>
> This can be rewritten with some syntactic sugar as
>
> yield from lines_gen
>
> > for line in getWord(fileName, 5):
> > with open(dumpName, 'a') as f:
> >
Sayth Renshaw wrote:
> Afternoon
>
> Trying to create a generator to write the first N lines of text to a file.
> However, I keep receiving the islice object not the text, why?
>
> from itertools import islice
>
> fileName = dir / "7oldsamr.txt"
> dumpName = dir / "dump.txt"
>
> def getWord(in
