[Tutor] range as a not-quite-iterator

[Jim Mooney]

using py3.3 on win7

I'm reading the Lutz book, and he clearly calls range an iterator in
the context of Python 3.0, yet when I try

x = range(1,10)
next(x)
I get: builtins.TypeError: 'range' object is not an iterator
And x itself is returned as: range(1, 10)

What am I missing here? Is it an iterator or not?

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Jim
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