How do you refer to an iterator in docs?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Fri Apr 20 09:41:25 EDT 2012


In article <4f910c3d$0$29965$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> I refer you to your subject line:
> 
> "How do you refer to an iterator in docs?"
> 
> In documentation, I refer to an iterator as an iterator, just as I would 
> refer to a list as a list, a dict as a dict, or a string as a string.

Except that "list of foos" and "sequence of foos" make sense from a 
grammar standpoint, but "iterator of foos" does not.  Or maybe it does?



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