what yield does in python?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/what-does-the-yield-keyword-do-in-python

yield->generator(生成器)->iterable(迭代器)

Everything you can use "for... in..." on is an iterable: lists, strings, files...

These iterables are handy because you can read them as much as you wish, but you store all the values in memory and this is not always what you want when you have a lot of values.

迭代器的所有内容都在内存中，当有非常多文件或文件数量很大时，不可行

Generators are iterators, but you can only iterate over them once. It's because they do not store all the values in memory, they generate the values on the fly:

生成器也是迭代器，但是只能迭代一次

mygenerator = (x*x for x in range(3))
>>> for i in mygenerator:
...    print(i)

通过type(mygenerator)可以看到mygenerator的类型是generator，通过循环可以把里面的内容打印出来，但是不能被执行第二遍

for i in mygenerator:
...    print(i）