What does it mean to “consume” in Python? In an iterator?

Question

I have been working in Python for a few months now, and it has occurred to me that I often overlook vocabulary that escapes me at first glance, instead trying to get the gis

Answer 1

I'm not a Python expert, but I can say this: Most of the time, consumption in programming is the opposite of production. You can classify some processes as producers, which create values; and others as consumers, which use the values created by the producers.

In the case of an iterator, an iterator is a producer which goes through an iterable object and "produces" each value, one at a time, in order. To "consume" data from an iterator simply means to use it.