What’s the shortest way to count the number of items in a generator/iterator?

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Calls to itertools.imap() in Python 2 or map() in Python 3 can be replaced by equivalent generator expressions:

sum(1 for dummy in it)

This also uses a lazy generator, so it avoids materializing a full list of all iterator elements in memory.

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