Re: [myhdl-list] difficulty using itertools with MyHDL

[George P. <ge...@ga...>]

George Pantazopoulos wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
>     I'm having difficulty using itertools objects in MyHDL simulations. 
> It seems this is the case because, from some crazy reason, the Python 
> itertools objects are *not* of type GeneratorType! In fact, it looks 
> like each one is its own type! (eg itertools.izip, itertools.chain).
>
>     This causes myhdl._Simulation._checkArgs to raise an "Inappropriate 
> Argument Type" SimulationError.
>
>     I'd really like to be able to use itertools.izip() and 
> itertools.chain() at least. What could be done about the situation? Is 
> there anyway to "coerce" the iterools into GeneratorTypes?
>
> Thanks,
>   
I found an interesting article on doing type checking in Python:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305888

I'm not sure, but perhaps you could check for generator-like behavior 
(eg. a 'next' function) and not GeneratorType directly?

Thanks,
George