[Python-Dev] feature request: inspect.isgenerator (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Jun 1 17:57:15 CEST 2006

"Michele Simionato" <michele.simionato at gmail.com> wrote in message news:loom.20060601T145807-833 at post.gmane.org...

Yep, this is the crux. types.GeneratorType refers to generator objects, which in an improper sense are "instances" of a "generator function". I.e.

def g(): yield 1 # this is a generator go = g() # this is a generator object

That terminology does not work. For every other type, an x is an x object and vice versa. I think most of us call functions which return generators a generator function when the distinction needs to be made. A generator is a type in the conceptual class 'iterator'.

Terry Jan Reedy

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