现在可以使用more_itertools。Seekable(第三方工具)，允许重置迭代器。

通过> pip Install more_itertools安装

import more_itertools as mit


y = mit.seekable(FunctionWithYield())
for x in y:
    print(x)

y.seek(0)                                              # reset iterator
for x in y:
    print(x)

注意:内存消耗会随着迭代器的增加而增加，所以要警惕大型迭代对象。

我不知道你说的昂贵的准备是什么意思，但我猜你确实有

data = ... # Expensive computation
y = FunctionWithYield(data)
for x in y: print(x)
#here must be something to reset 'y'
# this is expensive - data = ... # Expensive computation
# y = FunctionWithYield(data)
for x in y: print(x)

如果是这样的话，为什么不重用数据呢?

它可以通过code对象来实现。下面是一个例子。

code_str="y=(a for a in [1,2,3,4])"
code1=compile(code_str,'<string>','single')
exec(code1)
for i in y: print i

1 2 3 4

for i in y: print i


exec(code1)
for i in y: print i

1 2 3 4

另一种选择是使用itertools.tee()函数创建生成器的第二个版本:

import itertools
y = FunctionWithYield()
y, y_backup = itertools.tee(y)
for x in y:
    print(x)
for x in y_backup:
    print(x)

从内存使用的角度来看，如果原始迭代可能不处理所有的项，这可能是有益的。

我的答案解决了稍微不同的问题:如果初始化生成器的开销很大，生成每个生成的对象的开销也很大。但是我们需要在多个函数中多次使用生成器。为了只调用一次生成器和每个生成的对象，我们可以使用线程并在不同的线程中运行每个消费方法。由于GIL，我们可能无法实现真正的并行，但我们将实现我们的目标。

这种方法在以下情况下做得很好:深度学习模型处理了大量图像。结果是图像上的很多物体都有很多遮罩。每个掩码都会消耗内存。我们有大约10种方法来进行不同的统计和度量，但它们都是一次性拍摄所有图像。所有的图像都装不下内存。方法可以很容易地重写为接受迭代器。

class GeneratorSplitter:
'''
Split a generator object into multiple generators which will be sincronised. Each call to each of the sub generators will cause only one call in the input generator. This way multiple methods on threads can iterate the input generator , and the generator will cycled only once.
'''

def __init__(self, gen):
    self.gen = gen
    self.consumers: List[GeneratorSplitter.InnerGen] = []
    self.thread: threading.Thread = None
    self.value = None
    self.finished = False
    self.exception = None

def GetConsumer(self):
    # Returns a generator object. 
    cons = self.InnerGen(self)
    self.consumers.append(cons)
    return cons

def _Work(self):
    try:
        for d in self.gen:
            for cons in self.consumers:
                cons.consumed.wait()
                cons.consumed.clear()

            self.value = d

            for cons in self.consumers:
                cons.readyToRead.set()

        for cons in self.consumers:
            cons.consumed.wait()

        self.finished = True

        for cons in self.consumers:
            cons.readyToRead.set()
    except Exception as ex:
        self.exception = ex
        for cons in self.consumers:
            cons.readyToRead.set()

def Start(self):
    self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self._Work)
    self.thread.start()

class InnerGen:
    def __init__(self, parent: "GeneratorSplitter"):
        self.parent: "GeneratorSplitter" = parent
        self.readyToRead: threading.Event = threading.Event()
        self.consumed: threading.Event = threading.Event()
        self.consumed.set()

    def __iter__(self):
        return self

    def __next__(self):
        self.readyToRead.wait()
        self.readyToRead.clear()
        if self.parent.finished:
            raise StopIteration()
        if self.parent.exception:
            raise self.parent.exception
        val = self.parent.value
        self.consumed.set()
        return val

Ussage:

genSplitter = GeneratorSplitter(expensiveGenerator)

metrics={}
executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=3)
f1 = executor.submit(mean,genSplitter.GetConsumer())
f2 = executor.submit(max,genSplitter.GetConsumer())
f3 = executor.submit(someFancyMetric,genSplitter.GetConsumer())
genSplitter.Start()

metrics.update(f1.result())
metrics.update(f2.result())
metrics.update(f3.result())

如果你的生成器在某种意义上是纯的，它的输出只依赖于传递的参数和步长，并且你希望生成的生成器是可重新启动的，这里有一个排序代码片段可能很方便:

import copy

def generator(i):
    yield from range(i)

g = generator(10)
print(list(g))
print(list(g))

class GeneratorRestartHandler(object):
    def __init__(self, gen_func, argv, kwargv):
        self.gen_func = gen_func
        self.argv = copy.copy(argv)
        self.kwargv = copy.copy(kwargv)
        self.local_copy = iter(self)

    def __iter__(self):
        return self.gen_func(*self.argv, **self.kwargv)

    def __next__(self):
        return next(self.local_copy)

def restartable(g_func: callable) -> callable:
    def tmp(*argv, **kwargv):
        return GeneratorRestartHandler(g_func, argv, kwargv)

    return tmp

@restartable
def generator2(i):
    yield from range(i)

g = generator2(10)
print(next(g))
print(list(g))
print(list(g))
print(next(g))

输出:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
[]
0
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
1