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One of the more interesting ways to use print is printing output of a generator, as print(*generator()).
But if the generator generates a typeError, you get a very unhelpful error message:
>>> #the way it works OK
>>> def f(): yield 'a'+'b'
...
>>> print(*f())
ab
>>> #Now with a type error
>>> def f(): yield 'a'+5
...
>>> print(*f())
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: print() argument after * must be a sequence, not generator
The problem is twofold:
- the message is plainly wrong, since it does work with a generator
- the actual error is hidden from view