Understanding generators in Python

Question

I am reading the Python cookbook at the moment and am currently looking at generators. I\'m finding it hard to get my head round.

As I come from a Java background, i

Answer 1

I believe the first appearance of iterators and generators were in the Icon programming language, about 20 years ago.

You may enjoy the Icon overview, which lets you wrap your head around them without concentrating on the syntax (since Icon is a language you probably don't know, and Griswold was explaining the benefits of his language to people coming from other languages).

After reading just a few paragraphs there, the utility of generators and iterators might become more apparent.