On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 5:37 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:23 PM Stephen J. Turnbull > <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > > > > Chris Angelico writes: > > > > > I don't like this term "converted". > > > > I refuse to die on that hill. :-) Suggest a better term, I'll happily > > use it until something even better comes along. Or I'll try to come > > up with a better one as I think about the documentation issue. > > > > Unfortunately I don't have a really good generic term, but I would be > inclined to "get an iterator from" an object rather than "convert" it > to an iterator. It's still not a great term, but at least it allows > you to think about getting multiple iterators from the same thing, > even potentially getting different types of iterator. > Perhaps use the iter function name as the generic? "itered". As opposed to "iterated" or "iterated over". Example: "the statement below iterates over an iterator, itered from a sequence"
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