["python","generator"]
How does a generator comprehension works?

What does generator comprehension do? How does it work? I couldn't find a tutorial about it.
Do you understand list comprehensions? If so, a generator expression is like a list comprehension, but instead of finding all the items you're interested and packing them into list, it waits, and yields each item out of the expression, one by one. >>> my_list = [1, 3, 5, 9, 2, 6] >>> filtered_list = [item for item in my_list if item > 3] >>> print(filtered_list) [5, 9, 6] >>> len(filtered_list) 3 >>> # compare to generator expression ... >>> filtered_gen = (item for item in my_list if item > 3) >>> print(filtered_gen) # notice it's a generator object <generator object <genexpr> at 0x7f2ad75f89e0> >>> len(filtered_gen) # So technically, it has no length Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: object of type 'generator' has no len() >>> # We extract each item out individually. We'll do it manually first. ... >>> next(filtered_gen) 5 >>> next(filtered_gen) 9 >>> next(filtered_gen) 6 >>> next(filtered_gen) # Should be all out of items and give an error Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> StopIteration >>> # Yup, the generator is spent. No values for you! ... >>> # Let's prove it gives the same results as our list comprehension ... >>> filtered_gen = (item for item in my_list if item > 3) >>> gen_to_list = list(filtered_gen) >>> print(gen_to_list) [5, 9, 6] >>> filtered_list == gen_to_list True >>> Because a generator expression only has to yield one item at a time, it can lead to big savings in memory usage. Generator expressions make the most sense in scenarios where you need to take one item at a time, do a lot of calculations based on that item, and then move on to the next item. If you need more than one value, you can also use a generator expression and grab a few at a time. If you need all the values before your program proceeds, use a list comprehension instead.