How to get one value at a time from a generator function in Python?

Question

Very basic question - how to get one value from a generator in Python?

So far I found I can get one by writing gen.next(). I just want to make sure this

Answer 1

Use (for python 3)

next(generator)

Here is an example

def fun(x):
    n = 0
    while n < x:
        yield n
        n += 1
z = fun(10)
next(z)
next(z)

should print

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