[New Concept Exercise] : generators

[BethanyG]

This issue describes how to implement the generators concept exercise for the Python track.

Getting started

Please please please read the docs before starting. Posting PRs without reading these docs will be a lot more frustrating for you during the review cycle, and exhaust Exercism's maintainers' time. So, before diving into the implementation, please read up on the following documents:

• The features of v3.
• Rationale for v3.
• What are concept exercise and how they are structured?
• Python Track concept exercise implementation guide.

Please also watch the following video:

• The Anatomy of a Concept Exercise.

Goal

The goal of this exercise is to teach the syntax and use of generators in Python.

Learning objectives

• Understand what generators are and how/when to use them
• Understand how generators relate to loops and iterators
• Understand how to use the yield keyword
• Understand the __next__() method
• Create a generator

Out of scope

• Memory and performance characteristics and optimizations
• throw(type, value=None, traceback=None)
• close()
• generator expressions
• yield from
• generators used as coroutines

Concepts covered

• generators
• yield
• __next__()
• iterators

Prerequisites

• conditionals
• dicts
• functions
• higher-order-functions
• lists
• loops
• iteration
• iterators
• sequences

Resources to refer to

• Generators (Python official docs)
• generator (Python official docs glossary)
• The yield statement (Python official docs)
• Yield expressions (Python official docs)
• Iterators(Python official docs)
• Generator-iterator methods (Python official docs)
• How to Use Generators and yield in Python (Real Python)

Hints

• Referring to one or more of the resources linked above, or analogous resources from a trusted source.
• Generators section of the Python Docs Functional How to tutorial: Generators

Concept Description

(a variant of this can be used for the v3/languages/python/concepts/<concept>/about.md doc and this exercises introduction.md doc.)

Concept Description Needs to Be Filled In Here/Written

Some "extras" that we might want to include as notes in the concept description, or as links in links.json:

• Additional Generator-iterator methods, such as generator.send() and generator.throw()
• generator expressions
• Asynchronous generator functions
• generators used as coroutines

Representer

No changes required.

Analyzer

No changes rquired.

Implementing

The general Python track concept exercise implantation guide can be found here.

Tests should be written using unittest.TestCase and the test file named generators_test.py.

Code in the .meta/example.py file should only use syntax & concepts introduced in this exercise or one of its prerequisites. Please do not use comprehensions, generator expressions, or other syntax not previously covered. Please also follow PEP8 guidelines.

Help

If you have any questions while implementing the exercise, please post the questions as comments in this issue, or contact one of the maintainers on our Slack channel.

[BethanyG]

@djjohnsongeek is going to take this on. 🎉 🌟

[J08K]

Heya, I am going to work on this.

My idea

An airline needs your help with assigning seats for passengers, to do this they need you to make them a generator for that.

First, clarification:
A seat uses the following format 11F, with each 1 being a number from 1 through 9, AKA the rows. And the F is the seat in each row, it uses A through F. It is important to note that a lot of airlines (we'll be using all airlines in the exercise) do not use row 13 because of the superstition surrounding it.

The exercise consists (prone to change) out of these functions/generators:

• generate_seats: Using the argument number_of_seats generate that amount of seats by counting up 1A, 1B, 1C, etc. inside a generator.
• assign_seats: This generator needs to assign seats to a list of given passengers. It returns a list of tuples, with (passenger_name, assigned_seat). These seats need to be generated by the previously mentioned function.

I think these should cover most of generators, but I am still stuck on how to implement __next__() and next() into the exercise itself.

[djjohnsongeek]

Yeah sorry I realize I never got to this. My personal life sorta blew up right after I started contributing.

[BethanyG]

No worries @djjohnsongeek! We're happy you are back, and hopefully everything is going well for you.
If you'd like, I think @J08K might be open to collaboration? Just check in with him.

But there are also other issues (open issues) you can take on as well (if you'd like) -- just let us know! 😄

[djjohnsongeek]

@BethanyG
For the most part it has all been good stuff: new baby, new job, new house. New baby especially has trimmed all my free time 😄
I'd love to come back and contribute at some point, but still might be a while yet.

[BethanyG]

@djjohnsongeek -- WOW 😮 That is a LOT of new! Congratulations! 🌟

...and just give a shout when you want to ease back into contributing. 😄

[J08K]

Wowie, congratulations on the kid! I wish you good night's rest! 😛 Enjoy every moment, and we'll see you around!

[djjohnsongeek]

Thank you both!

[BethanyG]

Closing this issue, since we've merged the Plane Tickets exercise. Any further changes will be logged in a new issue. Thanks everyone for your work!