It's not the storage requirements of the list that are inconvenient
but the fact that I'd have to wait for too long: I want to have the
output as soon as it's available.
Is this a situation where a generator could be helpful? (I have no
experience with those.)

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Daniel Goertzen
<daniel.goertzen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Perhaps implement your items as a generator instead of building the whole
> list ahead of time.
>
> Dan.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Compiling the list is difficult for me as the items take a long time
>> to be computed (the emitter is supposed to be part of a numerical
>> code), so I wouldn't want to have to wait for the last item to arrive
>> until they're printed all together.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Dennis Lissov <dennis.lissov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello Nico,
>> >
>> > in Python YAML is typically mapped directly to the trees of objects.
>> > The YAML sequence is mapped to the Python list, so using
>> >
>> >    yaml.dump(['eggs', 'bread', 'milk'], default_flow_style=False)
>> >
>> > and if the equivalent output of '[eggs, bread, milk]' is acceptable,
>> > the keyword argument may also be omitted. Unless you need to
>> > explicitly deal with the representation and serialization steps, it's
>> > the easiest way to deal with YAML in Python.
>> >
>> > Good luck,
>> > Dennis.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Nico Schlömer
>> > <nico.schloemer <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> in C++, typical YAML usage looks like
>> >>
>> >> ============ *snip* ============
>> >> YAML::Emitter out;
>> >> out << YAML::BeginSeq;
>> >> out << "eggs";
>> >> out << "bread";
>> >> out << "milk";
>> >> out << YAML::EndSeq;
>> >> ============ *snap* ============
>> >>
>> >> while the same thing in Python is (as far as I know)
>> >> ============ *snip* ============
>> >> print yaml.emit([yaml.StreamStartEvent(),
>> >>                 yaml.DocumentStartEvent(),
>> >>                 yaml.SequenceStartEvent(anchor=None, tag=None,
>> >> implicit=True),
>> >>                 yaml.ScalarEvent(anchor=None, tag=None,
>> >> implicit=(True, False), value=u'eggs'),
>> >>                 yaml.ScalarEvent(anchor=None, tag=None,
>> >> implicit=(True, False), value=u'bread'),
>> >>                 yaml.ScalarEvent(anchor=None, tag=None,
>> >> implicit=(True, False), value=u'milk'),
>> >>                 yaml.SequenceEndEvent()
>> >>               ])
>> >> ============ *snap* ============
>> >>
>> >> Is there any way to make this less verbose? (I don't even know why I
>> >> need all these options.)
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Nico
>> >>
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