Python quiz

[thespeedbump]

What does this line of code do?

if 0: yield None

(hint: it does something)

Comments

[egometry]

returns a not-null value?

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...it'd help to know the language.

[egometry]

Oh. The subject line.

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...it'd help to know Python >_>

[evilbob23]

I have an image of a guy trying to get a prostitute to come home with him, but he's turned out his pockets and is frowning.

[rizen]

So, the parts of python that do generators required the yield statement to have been parsed? You couldn't just replace that line with "pass"?

[thespeedbump]

Right.

If a function has a yield statement somewhere in its body, it is considered to be a generator function. If no yield statement is ever executed, then the function is a generator that produces an empty sequence.

[aubreyszutko]

If a function or method body contains the statement 'yield', then it becomes a -generator function-, and invoking the function returns a -generator iterator- instead of a simple value.