[3.12] Fix docstring and var name of itertools recipe (GH-112113) (#112310)

Fix docstring and var name of itertools recipe (GH-112113)

`prepend()` works with arbitrary iterables, not only iterators. In fact,
the example given uses a `list`, which is iterable, but not an iterator.
(cherry picked from commit 6c47eaccfa2550c140a24bc6e520d968731d9689)

Co-authored-by: Sebastian Rittau <srittau@rittau.biz>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index f97e7f7..ebb4ebc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -798,10 +798,10 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
        "Return first n items of the iterable as a list"
        return list(islice(iterable, n))
 
-   def prepend(value, iterator):
-       "Prepend a single value in front of an iterator"
+   def prepend(value, iterable):
+       "Prepend a single value in front of an iterable"
        # prepend(1, [2, 3, 4]) --> 1 2 3 4
-       return chain([value], iterator)
+       return chain([value], iterable)
 
    def tabulate(function, start=0):
        "Return function(0), function(1), ..."