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by joshuamorton 2961 days ago
Only if you iterate over a fixed-length iterable.

    [x for x in itertools.count()]
will never terminate.
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heavenlyblue 2951 days ago
It will terminate as soon as it runs out of memory.
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joshuamorton 2951 days ago
By this definition, python has a nice locally defined property that it will always terminate ;)
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heavenlyblue 2950 days ago
No; this will never-ever terminate:

    (x for x in itertools.count())
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