On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 08:52:59AM -0800, Ethan Furman wrote:
On 11/21/2014 08:30 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But generators and iterators *are the same thing*. (Generator functions are not iterators, but generators themselves are.) Iterators don't have a specific type, but they obey the iterator protocol:
Um, no, they aren't. One cannot 'send()' into any ol' iterator.
"Must not support send()" has never been part of the definition of iterators.
The `Iterator` ABC also recognises generators as iterators:
py> def gen(): ... yield 1 ... py> from collections import Iterator py> isinstance(gen(), Iterator) True
and they are documented as iterators:
Python’s generators provide a convenient way to implement the iterator protocol. If a container object’s __iter__() method is implemented as a generator, it will automatically return an iterator object (technically, a generator object) supplying the __iter__() and __next__() methods.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#generator-types
I don't understand where this idea that generators aren't iterators has come from, unless it is confusion between the generator *function* and the generator object itself.