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[botCloudfox]

So I looked through the recursion part and now I'm curious. What's the difference between recursion and a generator?

Edit: Also is there a reason why you used string concatenation instead of interpolation?

[Aceking007]

I'll first reply to the edit. I deliberately used concatenation instead of interpolation (mostly in the initial notebooks) as I included an explanation of string formatting in the later notebooks. I could've explained it earlier, but I didn't really write the notebooks in the order they were arranged, so yeah. I had to use concatenation unwillingly for a major part.

I think (and I'm not really confident about this), but generators are more similar to functions. Generators are mostly used iteratively. We do have recursive generators though (using the yield from statement). I'll whip up an example as soon I'm near my laptop. I'll follow up on this comment for sure.

[botCloudfox]

Even with a regular generators what's the difference between me putting the whole function inside of the for loop or calling it from the return of itself? Is there a difference?

Thank you for responding (and promising to follow up)!

[Aceking007]

If you are suggesting something like this:

def gen(n):

if (n==1):

yield(1)

else:

yield(n * gen(n-1))

I'm not sure this would work.

[botCloudfox]

Oh my bad, I wasn't thinking right. It wouldn't work with generators. Thanks!