Programming using Python

prutor.ai Amey Karkare

Dept. of CSE
IIT Kanpur

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Python Programming
 Source: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#iterators
Iterators
• The backbone for for ... in
statement
for element in [1, 2, 3]:
print (element)

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for element in (1, 2, 3):
print (element)
for key in {'one':1, 'two':2}:
print (key)
for char in "123":
print (char)
for line in open("myfile.txt"):
print (line)
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 Iterators: Behind the Scene
• for statement calls iter() on the container object
• The iter() function returns an iterator object that

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defines the method next()
• next() accesses elements in the container one at
a time
• When there are no more elements, next() raises
a StopIteration exception
– tells the for loop to terminate.

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Iterators: Dissection

Source: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#iterators
 Create Your Own Iterator
• In a class, define an __iter__()
method which returns an object with

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a __next__() method.
• If the class defines __next__(), then
__iter__() can just return self

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 Source: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#iterators
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>>> r = Reverse('spam')
>>> char = iter(r)
( ) >>> while(True)
... try:
... nxt = next(char)
Loosely equivalent to
... print(nxt)
... except StopIteration: 6
... break