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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-06-27 14:16:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-06-27 14:16:23 (GMT) |
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link to extensive generator docs in the reference manual
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 35c7817..2048e98 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -619,10 +619,18 @@ Implementations that do not obey this property are deemed broken. (This constraint was added in Python 2.3; in Python 2.2, various iterators are broken according to this rule.) + +.. _generator-types: + +Generator Types +--------------- + Python's :term:`generator`\s provide a convenient way to implement the iterator protocol. If a container object's :meth:`__iter__` method is implemented as a generator, it will automatically return an iterator object (technically, a -generator object) supplying the :meth:`__iter__` and :meth:`next` methods. +generator object) supplying the :meth:`__iter__` and :meth:`next` methods. More +information about generators can be found in :ref:`the documentation for the +yield expression <yieldexpr>`. .. _typesseq: |