Problem populating a repeating panel from a table

Anvil Q&A
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I was right when I said “you can iterate an iterator only once”, but I was wrong because a SearchIterator is not an iterator, it’s an iterable, which creates as many iterators as you need.

I wasn’t confused enough, so I decided to check the psycopg2 cursor. In this case I was sure it was an iterator, instead the documentation clearly states it’s an iterable. So I made a little test and found out it can only be used once, so it looks to me like it’s an iterator.

So:

  • The SearchIterator described in the documentation as an iterator behaves as an iterable
  • The cursor described in the documentation as an iterable behaves as an iterator

Is my understanding of the difference between iterator and iterable wrong?