[IPython-user] Strange behaviour of generator in IPython

[Karl Pflästerer]

Hi,
I searched the list archive and the bug tracker but found nothing about
that issue (well I'm not sure if it's a bug so I report it first here).

Python is 2.3 (Cygwin-version).

If I write a simple generator like that:

In [60]: def counter(start=1, step=1):
   ....:     c = [start]
   ....:     while 1:
   ....:         yield c[0]
   ....:         c[0] += step
   ....: 

In [61]: c = counter()

In [62]: [c.next() for i in range(10)]
Out[62]: [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]

In [63]: [c.next() for i in range(10)]
Out[63]: [31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40]


In the default interactive python I get:

$ python
Python 2.3 (#1, Aug  1 2003, 15:01:23) 
[GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def counter(start=1, step=1):
...     c = [start]
...     while 1:
...         yield c[0]
...         c[0] += step
... 
>>> c = counter()
>>> [c.next() for i in range(10)]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
>>> [c.next() for i in range(10)]
[11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]
>>> 


The output in default Python is the one I expected. What's wrong here?
If I add a print statement after the yield statement

In [3]: def counter(start=1, step=1):
   ...:     c = [start]
   ...:     while 1:
   ...:         yield c[0]
   ...:         print c[0]
   ...:         c[0] += step
   ...: 

In [4]: c = counter()

In [5]: [c.next() for i in range(5)]
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Out[5]: [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]


Somehow next() gets called two times range(n) and not range(n)



   KP

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