Please, how do I call the method inside this class

[Emekadavid]

I understand about methods and variables in classes but I was reading this book on data structures and understand what the author was saying until he wrote a utility function inside a class, a progression class. The class is an iterator that implements the __next__ special method. The class on the other hand has a utility method, print_progression, that calls the special method to print the next n numbers. I have been trying to call the utility function to print out the values in the __next__ special method but I have been unsuccessful. Can anyone show me how to do so and what concepts are involved? Thanks.

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class Progression :     def __init__(self, start=0):         self._current = start       def _advance(self):         self._current += 1       def __next__(self):         if self._current is None :             raise StopIteration()         else :             answer = self._current             self._advance()             return answer       def print_progression(self, n):         print(''.join(str(next(self) for j in range(n))))

What I have done so far and did not success.
I tried:

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if __name__ == '__main__' :     genericProg = Progression(1)     genericProg.print_progression(5)

The output is:

Output:
<generator object Progression.print_progression,<locals>.<genexpr> at xxxxx>

Please, what am I doing wrong and how do I call that method. Someone help me please. The interpreter is saying this is a generator object but the method has no yield statement. I am totally confused about this.

[Yoriz]

You have

1	print(''.join(str(next(self) for j in range(n))))

which is turning a generator into a string str(next(self) for j in range(n))
i think what you are looking for is

1	print(''.join(str(next(self)) for j in range(n)))

which is turning the next item into a string str(next(self))

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The following

1	print(type(i for i in range(2)))

creates a generator

Output:
<class 'generator'>

whereas including square brackets

1	print(type([i for i in range(2)]))

creates a list

Output:
<class 'list'>