I have written a generating function that should return a dictionary. however when I try to print a field I get the following error
print row2['SearchDate']
TypeError: 'generator' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
This is my code
from csv import DictReader
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
def genSearch(SearchInfo):
for row2 in DictReader(open(SearchInfo)):
yield row2
train = 'minitrain.csv'
SearchInfo = 'SearchInfo.csv'
row2 = {'SearchID': -1}
for row1 in DictReader(open(train)):
if 'SearchID' in row1 and 'SearchID' in row2 and row1['SearchID'] == row2['SearchID']:
x = deepcopy( row1 )
#x['SearchDate'] = row2['percent']
x.update(row2)
print 'new'
print x
else:
#call your generator
row2 = genSearch(SearchInfo)
print row2['SearchDate']
Generator returns an iterator, you explicitly needs to call next on it.
Your last line of code should be something like -
Ideally, we use iterators in a loop, which automatically does the same for us.