[New-bugs-announce] [issue10109] itertools.product with infinite iterator cause MemoryError.

[Jeong-Min Lee]

New submission from Jeong-Min Lee <falsetru at gmail.com>:

According to the documentation, itertools.product is equivalent to nested for-loops in a generator expression.
But, itertools.product(itertools.count(2010)) is not.

>>> import itertools
>>> (year for year in itertools.count(2010))
<generator object <genexpr> at 0x026367D8>
>>> itertools.product(itertools.count(2010))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
MemoryError

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 118735
nosy: falsetru
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: itertools.product with infinite iterator cause MemoryError.
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2

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