Phillip J. Eby writes: > Yes, I think the whole concept of inspecting for this is broken. > *Any* function can return a generator-iterator. A generator > function is just a function that happens to always return one.
Just following up on Phillip's comments, consider the following functions: def foo(x): while still_going(x): yield some_func(x) def bar(x): while still_going(x): yield other_func(x) def foo_or_bar(x): if some_condition(x): return foo(x) else: return bar(x) I presume that Michele's proposal is that inspect.isgenerator() (or perhaps "inspect.isgenfunc()") would return True for "foo" and "bar" but false for "foo_or_bar". Can you give a single use case for which that distinction is desirable? -- Michael Chermside _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com