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authorMariusz Skoneczko <mariusz@skoneczko.com>2019-10-22 12:08:08 +1100
committerMariusz Skoneczko <mariusz@skoneczko.com>2019-10-22 12:08:23 +1100
commit2486fa8c1e51e975c603fa7972542deae287817b (patch)
treecea766b9dd2f4cb2343c7360fa41f117d4828ffe
parentef1ccd2b0f9ca450395b6391b1155c981cd4ad4d (diff)
[python3/en] Clarify difference between iterators and iterables in the last example (closes #3586)
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/python3.html.markdown b/python3.html.markdown
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@@ -550,8 +550,14 @@ next(our_iterator) # => "three"
# After the iterator has returned all of its data, it raises a StopIteration exception
next(our_iterator) # Raises StopIteration
-# You can grab all the elements of an iterator by calling list() on it.
-list(filled_dict.keys()) # => Returns ["one", "two", "three"]
+# We can also loop over it, in fact, "for" does this implicitly!
+our_iterator = iter(our_iterable)
+for i in our_iterator:
+ print(i) # Prints one, two, three
+
+# You can grab all the elements of an iterable or iterator by calling list() on it.
+list(our_iterable) # => Returns ["one", "two", "three"]
+list(our_iterator) # => Returns [] because state is saved
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