["python","list","generator"]
How to get the n next values of a generator into a list

I have made a generator to read a file word by word and it works nicely. def word_reader(file): for line in open(file): for p in line.split(): yield p reader = word_reader('txtfile') next(reader) What is the easiest way of getting the n next values into a list?
Use itertools.islice: list(itertools.islice(it, n))