Generators and Decorators

Generators

Generator creates the value on the fly.

# Generators help you make lazy code
def double_numbers(iterable):
    for i in iterable:
        yield i + i

# Instead of generating and returning all values at once it creates one in each iteration
# so values bigger than 15 wont be processed in double_numbers
# note range is a generator too, creating a list 1-900000000 would take lot of time
_range = range(1, 900000000)
# will double all numbers until a result >=30 found
for i in double_numbers(_range):
    print(i)
    if i >= 30:
        break

Decorators

in this example beg wraps say. beg will call say. If say_please is True then it will change the returned message.

from functools import wraps

def beg(_say):
    @wraps(_say)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        msg, say_please = _say(*args, **kwargs)
        if say_please:
            return "{} {}".format(msg, "Please! I am poor :(")
        return msg
    return wrapper

@beg
def say(say_please=False):
    msg = "Can you buy me a beer?"
    return msg, say_please


print(say())  # Can you buy me a beer?
print(say(say_please=True))  # Can you buy me a beer? Please! I am poor :(