New std test for generators, initially populated with doctests NeilS put

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Lib/test/test_generators.py

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+simple_tests = """
+Let's try a simple generator:
+
+    >>> def f():
+    ...    yield 1
+    ...    yield 2
+
+    >>> g = f()
+    >>> g.next()
+    1
+    >>> g.next()
+    2
+    >>> g.next()
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
+      File "<stdin>", line 2, in g
+    StopIteration
+
+"return" stops the generator:
+
+    >>> def f():
+    ...     yield 1
+    ...     return
+    ...     yield 2 # never reached
+    ...
+    >>> g = f()
+    >>> g.next()
+    1
+    >>> g.next()
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
+      File "<stdin>", line 3, in f
+    StopIteration
+    >>> g.next() # once stopped, can't be resumed
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
+    StopIteration
+
+"raise StopIteration" stops the generator too:
+
+    >>> def f():
+    ...     yield 1
+    ...     return
+    ...     yield 2 # never reached
+    ...
+    >>> g = f()
+    >>> g.next()
+    1
+    >>> g.next()
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
+    StopIteration
+    >>> g.next()
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
+    StopIteration
+
+However, they are not exactly equivalent:
+
+    >>> def g1():
+    ...     try:
+    ...         return
+    ...     except:
+    ...         yield 1
+    ...
+    >>> list(g1())
+    []
+
+    >>> def g2():
+    ...     try:
+    ...         raise StopIteration
+    ...     except:
+    ...         yield 42
+    >>> print list(g2())
+    [42]
+
+This may be surprising at first:
+
+    >>> def g3():
+    ...     try:
+    ...         return
+    ...     finally:
+    ...         yield 1
+    ...
+    >>> list(g3())
+    [1]
+
+Let's create an alternate range() function implemented as a generator:
+
+    >>> def yrange(n):
+    ...     for i in range(n):
+    ...         yield i
+    ...
+    >>> list(yrange(5))
+    [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
+
+Generators always return to the most recent caller:
+
+    >>> def creator():
+    ...     r = yrange(5)
+    ...     print "creator", r.next()
+    ...     return r
+    ...
+    >>> def caller():
+    ...     r = creator()
+    ...     for i in r:
+    ...             print "caller", i
+    ...
+    >>> caller()
+    creator 0
+    caller 1
+    caller 2
+    caller 3
+    caller 4
+
+Generators can call other generators:
+
+    >>> def zrange(n):
+    ...     for i in yrange(n):
+    ...         yield i
+    ...
+    >>> list(zrange(5))
+    [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
+
+"""
+
+__test__ = {"simple": simple_tests}
+
+# Magic test name that regrtest.py invokes *after* importing this module.
+# This worms around a bootstrap problem.
+# Note that doctest and regrtest both look in sys.argv for a "-v" argument,
+# so this works as expected in both ways of running regrtest.
+def test_main():
+    import doctest, test_generators
+    doctest.testmod(test_generators)
+
+# This part isn't needed for regrtest, but for running the test directly.
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main()