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## 7. Advanced
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# Generators help you make lazy code
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# Generators
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# A generator "generates" values as they are requested instead of storing
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# everything up front
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# The following method (*NOT* a generator) will double all values and store it
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# in `double_arr`. For large size of iterables, that might get huge!
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def double_numbers(iterable):
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double_arr = []
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for i in iterable:
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double_arr.append(i + i)
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# Running the following would mean we'll double all values first and return all
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# of them back to be checked by our condition
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for value in double_numbers(range(1000000)): # `test_non_generator`
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print value
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if value > 5:
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break
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# We could instead use a generator to "generate" the doubled value as the item
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# is being requested
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def double_numbers_generator(iterable):
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for i in iterable:
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yield i + i
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# A generator creates values on the fly.
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# Instead of generating and returning all values at once it creates one in each
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# iteration. This means values bigger than 15 wont be processed in
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# double_numbers.
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# Note xrange is a generator that does the same thing range does.
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# Creating a list 1-900000000 would take lot of time and space to be made.
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# xrange creates an xrange generator object instead of creating the entire list
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# like range does.
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# We use a trailing underscore in variable names when we want to use a name that
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# would normally collide with a python keyword
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xrange_ = xrange(1, 900000000)
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# will double all numbers until a result >=30 found
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for i in double_numbers(xrange_):
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print i
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if i >= 30:
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# Running the same code as before, but with a generator, now allows us to iterate
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# over the values and doubling them one by one as they are being consumed by
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# our logic. Hence as soon as we see a value > 5, we stop break out of the
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# loop and don't need to double most of the values sent in (MUCH FASTER!)
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for value in double_numbers_generator(xrange(1000000)): # `test_generator`
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print value
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if value > 5:
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break
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# BTW: did you notice the use of `range` in `test_non_generator` and `xrange` in `test_generator`?
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# Just as `double_numbers_generator` is the generator version of `double_numbers`
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# We have `xrange` as the generator version of `range`
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# `range` would return back and array with 1000000 values for us to use
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# `xrange` would generate 1000000 values for us as we request / iterate over those items
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# Decorators
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# in this example beg wraps say
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