April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 42m
English
The built-in iter() function creates an iterator over an object of one of the collection classes. The list, dict, and set classes all work with the iter() function to provide an iterator object for the items in the underlying collection. In most cases, we'll allow the for statement to do this implicitly. In a few cases, however, we need to create an iterator explicitly. One example of this is to separate the head from the tail of a collection.
Other uses include building iterators to consume the values created by a callable object (for example, a function) until a sentinel value is found. This feature is sometimes used with the read() function of a file to consume items until some end-of-line or ...