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diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst index c6e2544..9ff42cc 100644 --- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst @@ -590,7 +590,13 @@ loops that truncate the stream. .. function:: tee(iterable, n=2) - Return *n* independent iterators from a single iterable. Roughly equivalent to:: + Return *n* independent iterators from a single iterable. + + The following Python code helps explain what *tee* does (although the actual + implementation is more complex and uses only a single underlying + :abbr:`FIFO (first-in, first-out)` queue). + + Roughly equivalent to:: def tee(iterable, n=2): it = iter(iterable) |