A clear but not fully pythonic fizzbuzz implementation

fizzbuzz

def fizzbuzz(n):
    for x in range(1,n+1):
        result=''
        if not x%3: result += ('fizz')
        if not x%5: result += ('buzz')
        yield result if result else str(x)

This all grew out of a thread on the mailing list for the Philadelphia Linux User Group about https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program

And this was before I read https://blog.codinghorror.com/fizzbuzz-the-programmers-stairway-to-heaven/

The whole point of the original article was to think about why we have to ask people to write FizzBuzz. The mechanical part of writing and solving FizzBuzz, however cleverly, is irrelevant. Any programmer who cares enough to read programming blogs is already far beyond such a simple problem. FizzBuzz isn't meant for us. It's the ones we can't reach – the programmers who don't read anything – that we're forced to give the FizzBuzz test to.

C'est la vim.

Your last iteration of FizzBuzz was actually something worth checking out. Excellent use of a generator in a unique and compact manner. Not sure if you want to go to production with that code but you go girl!

In production I'd cheat more and also consider memoization. :)