One-liner to check whether an iterator yields at least one element?

Question

Currently I\'m doing this:

try:
    something = iterator.next()
    # ...
except StopIteration:
    # ...

But I would like an expression th

Answer 1

__length_hint__ estimates the length of list(it) - it's private method, though:

x = iter( (1, 2, 3) )
help(x.__length_hint__)
      1 Help on built-in function __length_hint__:
      2 
      3 __length_hint__(...)
      4     Private method returning an estimate of len(list(it)).