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diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index d544990..8797ece 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -441,14 +441,14 @@ statement in a function definition is sufficient to cause that definition to create a generator function instead of a normal function. When a generator function is called, it returns an iterator known as a generator iterator, or more commonly, a generator. The body of the generator function is -executed by calling the generator's :meth:`next` method repeatedly until it -raises an exception. +executed by calling the :func:`next` function on the generator repeatedly until +it raises an exception. When a :keyword:`yield` statement is executed, the state of the generator is frozen and the value of :token:`expression_list` is returned to :meth:`next`'s caller. By "frozen" we mean that all local state is retained, including the current bindings of local variables, the instruction pointer, and the internal -evaluation stack: enough information is saved so that the next time :meth:`next` +evaluation stack: enough information is saved so that the next time :func:`next` is invoked, the function can proceed exactly as if the :keyword:`yield` statement were just another external call. |