How do you refer to an iterator in docs?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:41:25 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

> 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?

Why wouldn't it make sense?



-- 
Steven