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link to extensive generator docs in the reference manual

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@ -619,10 +619,18 @@ Implementations that do not obey this property are deemed broken. (This
constraint was added in Python 2.3; in Python 2.2, various iterators are broken
according to this rule.)
.. _generator-types:
Generator Types
---------------
Python's :term:`generator`\s provide a convenient way to implement the iterator
protocol. If a container object's :meth:`__iter__` method is implemented as a
generator, it will automatically return an iterator object (technically, a
generator object) supplying the :meth:`__iter__` and :meth:`next` methods.
generator object) supplying the :meth:`__iter__` and :meth:`next` methods. More
information about generators can be found in :ref:`the documentation for the
yield expression <yieldexpr>`.
.. _typesseq: