Iterating Intelligently: Generators, and the Iterator Protocol

• Iteration, Comprehensions, and Generators
  • Coverage Of This Topic
  • for Recap: Sequential Datatypes
  • Primitive Transformation [1,2,3,4] ⟶ [1,4,9,16]
  • List Comprehension
  • Larger Input List (Still Allocated)
  • Input List ⟶ range
  • Output List ⟶ yield
  • Generator Function ⟶ Generator Expression
• Iteration, Generators, And yield
  • The Iterator Protocol
    • Iteration in Python
    • What’s an Iterator?
    • What’s an Iterable?
    • The Iterator Protocol
    • The Iterator Protocol: Manual Iteration
    • The Iterator Protocol, And The for Loop
    • Generators: Motivation
    • Generators: How?
    • Observations
  • Implementing A Fibonacci Number Generator
    • Fibonacci Numbers: Naive List
    • Fibonacci Numbers: Naive List, Limited
    • Sideway: Infinity by Not Using Functions
    • Fibonacci Numbers: Function Producing Infinite Sequence
    • Common Pattern: Turn List into Generated Items