On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 02:37:15PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > I think part of the problem is that people rarely see explicit > iterator objects in the wild. Most of the time we encounter iterator > objects only implicitly. Nomenclature *is* a problem (I still don't > know what a "generator" is: a function that contains "yield" in its > def, or the result of invoking such a function),
Strictly speaking, a function containing yield is a "generator function", the object it returns is a "generator iterator", or just generator. Analogy: "a float" is the object returned by the `float()` function, not the function itself. People are often sloppy in their terminology, but the inspect module makes it clear: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#inspect.isgeneratorfunction Alas, the glossary is itself a bit sloppy: you have to read it with care to see it talks about *generator functions* and *generator iterators*. The entries for async generators are better. https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7QBQTUN5WMB2VR2ISGC3FU2C7O6ELBAB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
