April 5, 2024, 5:51 a.m. | Azanul Haque

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Generators are a powerful concept in Python that offer memory-efficient ways to create iterators. Unlike traditional iterables like lists or tuples that store all values in memory at once, generators produce values on demand, making them ideal for handling large datasets, data processing pipelines or infinite sequences.


Let's take an example to dive into generators. Imagine that you're a chef and you don't want to prepare the ingredients beforehand as you don't know how many and which dishes are …

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