[Python-ideas] Generators are iterators

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
wrote:

> 2) there are a number of TIPPS in the standard library: things like
> tupleiterator and friends, the range object, etc.


The range object is not an iterator

>>> isinstance(range(1), collections.Iterator)
False

and does not implement the iterator protocol

>>> range(1).__next__
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'range' object has no attribute '__next__'

Please don't confuse iterators and iterables:

>>> isinstance(range(1), collections.Iterable)
True
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