Great article Steve, especially that you found a real world use case of making a custom iterable object. I had similar fun while writing How I learned to Stop Looping and Love the Iterator, though I wish I could add a section on generators.
One suggestion for you to improve the iterator of your se7enDwarves, is that you can redirect iteration to another iterable using yield *:
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Thanks, Kushan. I did realize that the iterator could be simplified about a month after I wrote the original article, but never updated it, so thanks for posting what that looks like. Great stuff.
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Great article Steve, especially that you found a real world use case of making a custom iterable object. I had similar fun while writing How I learned to Stop Looping and Love the Iterator, though I wish I could add a section on generators.
One suggestion for you to improve the iterator of your
se7enDwarves, is that you can redirect iteration to another iterable using yield *:Thanks, Kushan. I did realize that the iterator could be simplified about a month after I wrote the original article, but never updated it, so thanks for posting what that looks like. Great stuff.