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Comprehensions & generators

List/dict/set comprehensions, generator expressions, and lazy iteration.

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Cycle an iterable forever in Python

Define a generator that repeatedly yields items from an iterable, cycling back to the beginning infinitely.

generators cycle iteration
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def cycle_generator(iterable):
    """Yield items from iterable forever, cycling back to the start."""
    items = list(iterable)  # Convert to list so it can restart
    index = 0
    while True:
        yield items[index]
        index = (index + 1) % len(items)


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