我意识到这篇文章已经5年了，但我在寻找一种惯用的方法时发现了它，并没有看到我的解决方案发布出来。所以为了子孙后代:

import itertools

def get_generator():
    """
    Returns (bool, generator) where bool is true iff the generator is not empty.
    """
    gen = (i for i in [0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
    a, b = itertools.tee(gen)
    try:
        a.next()
    except StopIteration:
        return (False, b)
    return (True, b)

当然，我相信许多评论员会指出，这很俗气，而且只在某些有限的情况下有效(例如，生成器没有副作用)。YMMV。

>>> gen = (i for i in [])
>>> next(gen)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#43>", line 1, in <module>
    next(gen)
StopIteration

在生成器结束时引发StopIteration，因为在您的情况下立即到达结束，因此引发异常。但通常你不应该检查下一个值是否存在。

你可以做的另一件事是:

>>> gen = (i for i in [])
>>> if not list(gen):
    print('empty generator')

使用cytoolz中的peek函数。

from cytoolz import peek
from typing import Tuple, Iterable

def is_empty_iterator(g: Iterable) -> Tuple[Iterable, bool]:
    try:
        _, g = peek(g)
        return g, False
    except StopIteration:
        return g, True

此函数返回的迭代器将等效于作为参数传入的原始迭代器。

建议:

def peek(iterable):
    try:
        first = next(iterable)
    except StopIteration:
        return None
    return first, itertools.chain([first], iterable)

用法:

res = peek(mysequence)
if res is None:
    # sequence is empty.  Do stuff.
else:
    first, mysequence = res
    # Do something with first, maybe?
    # Then iterate over the sequence:
    for element in mysequence:
        # etc.

恕我直言，最好的办法是避免特殊测试。大多数时候，使用生成器是一种测试:

thing_generated = False

# Nothing is lost here. if nothing is generated, 
# the for block is not executed. Often, that's the only check
# you need to do. This can be done in the course of doing
# the work you wanted to do anyway on the generated output.
for thing in my_generator():
    thing_generated = True
    do_work(thing)

如果这还不够好，您仍然可以执行显式测试。此时，thing将包含最后生成的值。如果没有生成任何内容，它将是未定义的—除非您已经定义了该变量。你可以检查东西的价值，但那有点不可靠。相反，只需在块内设置一个标志，然后检查它:

if not thing_generated:
    print "Avast, ye scurvy dog!"

如果你在使用生成器之前需要知道，那么不，没有简单的方法。如果你可以等到你使用生成器之后，有一个简单的方法:

was_empty = True

for some_item in some_generator:
    was_empty = False
    do_something_with(some_item)

if was_empty:
    handle_already_empty_generator_case()