Brian Oney via Python-list wrote: > That's one thing that confused me. Generators are supposed to be one-off > iterators. Iterators, *I understood* as reusable iterables.
The way I think about it, informally: iterables need and __iter__ method, iterators need a __next__ method. In practice all iterators are also iterables, and the convention is to have __iter__ return self, which makes them one-off. Generators are just iterators created in an elegant way, by a function containing yield-s. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
