Chapter 8. More Advanced Functions
In Chapter 7, Basic Function Definitions, we looked at the core features of defining a function which returns a single result. Even functions with an implicit return statement at the end of the suite of statements, or a function with a return statement that has no expression, return a result: the None object is the default return value. In this chapter, we'll look at functions which generate multiple results. A generator function defines an iterable: it can be used with a for statement. This means that the generator doesn't produce a single object with all of the items in the result; instead it produces each item of the result separately.
Python offers generator expressions and comprehensions which complement ...
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