[Python-ideas] PEP 479: Change StopIteration handling inside generators

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, there is probably more to be said about this - along the lines
> of *why* generators ought to be more like iterators. (They're
> iterables, not iterators.)
>

If generators are not iterators, how do you explain this?

>>> import collections
>>> def g():
...     yield 42
...
>>> isinstance(g(), collections.Iterator)
True
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