Bool (generator)将返回正确的结果

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.

简单地用itertools包装生成器。Chain，在第二个可迭代对象中放入一个表示可迭代对象的结尾的东西，然后简单地检查它。

Ex:

import itertools

g = some_iterable
eog = object()
wrap_g = itertools.chain(g, [eog])

现在剩下的就是检查我们附加到可迭代对象末尾的值，当你读取它时，它将表示结束

for value in wrap_g:
    if value == eog: # DING DING! We just found the last element of the iterable
        pass # Do something

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!"

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。

要查看生成器是否为空，只需尝试获得下一个结果。当然，如果你还没有准备好使用这个结果，那么你必须存储它，以便以后再次返回。

下面是一个包装器类，可以添加到现有的迭代器中以添加__nonzero__测试，因此您可以通过简单的if查看生成器是否为空。它也可以变成一个装饰器。

class GenWrapper:
    def __init__(self, iter):
        self.source = iter
        self.stored = False

    def __iter__(self):
        return self

    def __nonzero__(self):
        if self.stored:
            return True
        try:
            self.value = next(self.source)
            self.stored = True
        except StopIteration:
            return False
        return True

    def __next__(self):  # use "next" (without underscores) for Python 2.x
        if self.stored:
            self.stored = False
            return self.value
        return next(self.source)

下面是你如何使用它:

with open(filename, 'r') as f:
    f = GenWrapper(f)
    if f:
        print 'Not empty'
    else:
        print 'Empty'

请注意，您可以在任何时候检查空，而不仅仅是在迭代的开始。