Tim Peters added the comment: I see nothing wrong with combinatorial generators materializing their inputs before generation. Perhaps it should be documented clearly. It's certainly not limited to `product()`. For example,
>>> for i in itertools.combinations(itertools.count(), 2): ... print(i) dies with MemoryError too. But I expected that ;-) ---------- nosy: +tim.peters _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10109> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
