On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:01:08 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > A basket of apples is a basket which contains apples, in the same way a > list contains foos. But an iterator doesn't contain anything. You > wouldn't say, "a spigot of water", because the spigot isn't a container > holding the water. It is simply a mechanism for delivering the water in > a controlled way.
A better analogy would be a trickle, stream or torrent of water. In English, "a foo of bar" does not necessarily imply containment, e.g. a circle of friends, a conspiracy of silence, a flood of refugees, a tissue of lies. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
