James Lu added the comment:

I think you closed it too quickly. You see, computing the length of
combinations() doesn't require looping all the way through the iterator;
you can compute it quickly. I created a wrapper class just for this purpose.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 5:24 PM, R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org>
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> R. David Murray added the comment:
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> If you read issue 24849, you will see that iterators having len was
> rejected by Guido long ago.
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