Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Getting the nth element of any iterable

Randomly accessing to containers is something we are used to doing frequently and without too many issues. For most container types, it's even a very cheap operation. When working with generic iterables and generators on the other side, it's not as easy as we would expect and it often ends up with us converting them to lists or ugly for loops.

The Python standard library actually has ways to make this very straightforward.