Distinguishing active generators from exhausted ones

[Ben Finney]

Michal Kwiatkowski <constant.beta at gmail.com> writes:

> I may be missing something obvious here. Is there a better way to tell
> if a given generator object is still active or not?

    foo = the_generator_object
    try:
        do_interesting_thing_that_needs(foo.next())
    except StopIteration:
        generator_is_exhausted()

In other words, don't LBYL, because it's EAFP. Whatever you need to do
that requires the next item from the generator, do that; you'll get a
specific exception if the generator is exhausted.

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Ben Finney