On 16/06/13 18:20, Timo wrote:
items = get_items() # returns a generator
for item in items:
print(item)
children = get_children(item) # also returns a generator
for child in children:
print("--", child)
This is fine as it will get the children for each parent item. I can't
seem to figure out how to go further and get the chidren of the children
and so on.
Presumably you can call get_children on each child?
children = get_children(item) # also returns a generator
for child in children:
grandchildren = get_children(child)
If you don't know how many levels it goes down the normal approach is to
use recursion to define a function that get called until the result is
empty. If there are too many layers for recursion then you will need to
keep a flag to count the layers and create/manage the heirarchy pointer
for you.
HTH
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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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