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  Re: learning to use iterators Seb <spluque@gmail.com> - 2014-12-23 13:37 -0600

#82851 — Re: learning to use iterators

On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:23:45 -0700,
Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:

> The parentheses enclose a generator expression, which is similar to a
> list comprehension [1] but produce a generator, which is a type of
> iterator, rather than a list.

> In much the same way that a list comprehension can be expanded out to
> a for loop building a list, another way to specify a generator is by
> defining a function using the yield keyword. For example, this
> generator function is equivalent to the generator expression above:

[...]

Thank you, this exactly what I was missing.

Happy holidays,

-- 
Seb

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