Generators

You’ll learn about the concept of generators in Python in this lesson.

Introduction to generators

Generators are functions that return an iterator. One kind of generator looks just like a list comprehension, except that the enclosing brackets are replaced by parentheses. Generators may be used wherever an iterator may be used, in a for loop for example.

Here’s an example. It will print e e a o.

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