On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As Guido said, "generator" is ambiguous; though I was
> inaccurate as well. A generator *object* is, as you show above, an
> iterator; a generator *function* is not actually iterable, but it is
> an iterator factory. An iterator class is also an iterator factory.


This is correct, and I don't think there is any ambiguity:

>>> def g(): yield 42
...
>>> type(g)
<class 'function'>
>>> type(g())
<class 'generator'>

As explained in PEP 255, "a Python generator is a kind of Python iterator[1], but of an especially powerful kind."  The other term introduced by PEP 255 is "generator function": "A function that contains a yield statement is called a generator function."