[IPython-user] Strange behaviour of generator in IPython

[Fernando Perez]

Karl Pflästerer wrote:
> 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]

Hi Karl,

this was indeed a nasty problem which I think 0.5.0.rc1 fixed as of yesterday. 
  The root of the problem, a set of evals() hidden in the object finder, were 
finally removed.

Please let me know if you see this problem again (which would very much 
surprise me :)

Best,

f.