Introduction

Get introduced to the concept of Iterator pattern in Python.

We’ve discussed how many of Python’s built-ins and idioms seem, at first blush, to fly in the face of object-oriented principles, but are actually providing access to real objects under the hood. In this chapter, we’ll discuss how the for loop, which seems so structured, is actually a lightweight wrapper around a set of object-oriented principles. We’ll also see a variety of extensions to this syntax that automatically create even more types of object. We will cover the following topics:

  • What design patterns are
  • The iterator protocol—one of the most powerful design patterns
  • List, set, and dictionary comprehensions
  • Generator functions, and how they build
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