New submission from Sven Rahmann :
The syntax of generator expressions suggests that they can be used
similarly to lists (at least when iterated over).
However, as was pointed out to me, the resulting generators are
iterators and can be used only once.
This is inconvenient in situations where
Sven Rahmann added the comment:
I complete agree that by
x = (z for z in y)
I create and assign a generator object to x.
I'm afraid I disagree about "not a doc bug".
The documentation for "for" reads:
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for_stmt ::= "for" target_list "in" e
New submission from Sven Rahmann :
Lists from list comprehensions and generator objects from generator
expressions behave differently when we repeatedly want to iterate over them.
This may or may not be a bug, but it is certainly not clear from the
documentation (see documentation of &quo
