[Python-ideas] Introduce collections.Reiterable

[Masklinn]

On 2013-09-19, at 11:23 , Neil Girdhar wrote:

> No, not things which are iterable but not iterators, things which are
> *reiterable* rather than merely iterable.  That is, things that can be
> iterated multiple times without the generated elements disappearing.

The point Nick is trying to bring across is that "iterable but not an
iterator" seems to do *exactly* what you ask for: you can get multiple
independent iterators out of it, and thus you can iterate it multiple
times without the generated elements disappearing.