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Exercise 1 in chapter 5.1 (Zipf's law).
author | Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com> |
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date | Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:38:24 -0600 |
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"""Chapter 2.7, exercise 7. Write a generator that yields an infinite sequence of alpha-numeric identifiers, starting with a1 through z1, then a2 through z2, and so on. """ import string def generate_identifier(): num = 1 while True: for c in string.lowercase: yield c + str(num) num += 1 if __name__ == '__main__': try: for name in generate_identifier(): print name except KeyboardInterrupt: print "Control-C interrupt"