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Wrap a generator in a re-usable iterator
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class CursorIterator(object): | |
def __init__(self, sequence, start=0): | |
self.sequence = sequence | |
self.position = start - 1 | |
def __next__(self): | |
self.position += 1 | |
return self.sequence[self.position] | |
class RepeatableIterable(object): | |
def __init__(self, iterator): | |
self.iterator = iterator | |
self.cache = [] | |
def __iter__(self): | |
return CursorIterator(self) | |
def __getitem__(self, i): | |
while i >= len(self.cache): | |
self.cache.append(next(self.iterator)) | |
return self.cache[i] | |
def gen(): | |
for a in range(10): | |
yield a | |
g = gen() | |
print('gen 1st time:', list(g)) | |
print('gen 2nd time:', list(g)) | |
g2 = RepeatableIterable(gen()) | |
print('wrapped gen 1st time:', list(g2)) | |
print('wrapped gen 2nd time:', list(g2)) |
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