IIRC generators and co-routines are equivalent in a sense that you can implement one with the other.
Generators are a subset of coroutines that only yield data in one direction. Full coroutines can also receive more input from the caller at every yield point.
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Generators are a subset of coroutines that only yield data in one direction. Full coroutines can also receive more input from the caller at every yield point.