[issue32341] itertools "generators"?

New submission from Stefan Pochmann stefan.pochmann@gmail.com:
The itertools page https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/itertools.html says "Combinatoric generators:" above the table with product(), permutations(), etc. But as far as I understand, they're not generators and they don't produce generator iterators. I think the table title should be "Combinatoric iterators:" instead, in line with "Infinite Iterators:" and "Iterators terminating on the shortest input sequence:" of the two tables above it.
Reference: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-generator
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Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger@gmail.com added the comment:
The term is used in the generic sense rather than the sense of an actual type. That said, I don't mind changing "Combinatoric generators" to "Combinatoric iterators" for 3.6 and 3.7. Otherwise, this isn't worth the backport effort.
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Change by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger@gmail.com:
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Change by Roundup Robot devnull@psf.upfronthosting.co.za:
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Change by Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger@gmail.com:
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