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On 14/03/2015 07:54, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>:
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>>> Your 'factory' is a:
>>>
>>>      generator
>>>          A function which returns an iterator.
>>>      <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html>
>>
>> That glossary entry is misleading, or at least incomplete, and it
>> fails to match the way "generator" is used by actual Python
>> programmers.
>
> I am an actual Python programmer (I develop Python programs) and my
> definitive source for Python is the documentation. If there is an error
> in the documentation, I would very much like it to be corrected.
>

Five minutes work for you (singular) on the bug tracker.

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Mark Lawrence