New submission from Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdo...@gmail.com>:

The documentation on generators (outside of PEP 255) does not currently educate 
the reader on the more specific  "generator function" and "generator iterator" 
terminology, or at least not in any consistent or systematic way.

For example, the glossary includes only a single entry for "generator," and 
that entry does not mention the two more specific forms.

I think it would help for general discourse purposes if this distinction were 
made clearer, while still continuing to allow for the use of the generic word 
"generator" when the context makes it clear.

There are also cases where index entries can be improved in this regard, and 
where references to the section containing details about generators can still 
be added.  I am in the process of completing a proposed patch.

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
keywords: easy
messages: 166474
nosy: cjerdonek, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: consistent treatment of generator terminology
versions: Python 3.3

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