简单地用itertools包装生成器。Chain，在第二个可迭代对象中放入一个表示可迭代对象的结尾的东西，然后简单地检查它。

Ex:

import itertools

g = some_iterable
eog = object()
wrap_g = itertools.chain(g, [eog])

现在剩下的就是检查我们附加到可迭代对象末尾的值，当你读取它时，它将表示结束

for value in wrap_g:
    if value == eog: # DING DING! We just found the last element of the iterable
        pass # Do something

我发现只有这个解决方案也适用于空迭代。

def is_generator_empty(generator):
    a, b = itertools.tee(generator)
    try:
        next(a)
    except StopIteration:
        return True, b
    return False, b

is_empty, generator = is_generator_empty(generator)

或者如果你不想使用异常来尝试使用

def is_generator_empty(generator):
    a, b = itertools.tee(generator)
    for item in a:
        return False, b
    return True, b

is_empty, generator = is_generator_empty(generator)

在标记的解决方案中，您不能将其用于空生成器，如

def get_empty_generator():
    while False:
        yield None 

generator = get_empty_generator()

我讨厌提供第二个解决方案，特别是一个我自己不会使用的解决方案，但是，如果你绝对必须这样做，并且不消耗生成器，就像在其他答案中一样:

def do_something_with_item(item):
    print item

empty_marker = object()

try:
     first_item = my_generator.next()     
except StopIteration:
     print 'The generator was empty'
     first_item = empty_marker

if first_item is not empty_marker:
    do_something_with_item(first_item)
    for item in my_generator:
        do_something_with_item(item)

现在我真的不喜欢这个解决方案，因为我相信这不是生成器的使用方式。

Bool (generator)将返回正确的结果

下面是一个包装生成器的简单装饰器，因此如果为空，它将返回None。如果您的代码需要知道生成器在循环遍历之前是否会生成任何东西，那么这可能很有用。

def generator_or_none(func):
    """Wrap a generator function, returning None if it's empty. """

    def inner(*args, **kwargs):
        # peek at the first item; return None if it doesn't exist
        try:
            next(func(*args, **kwargs))
        except StopIteration:
            return None

        # return original generator otherwise first item will be missing
        return func(*args, **kwargs)

    return inner

用法:

import random

@generator_or_none
def random_length_generator():
    for i in range(random.randint(0, 10)):
        yield i

gen = random_length_generator()
if gen is None:
    print('Generator is empty')

一个有用的例子是在模板代码中—即jinj2

{% if content_generator %}
  <section>
    <h4>Section title</h4>
    {% for item in content_generator %}
      {{ item }}
    {% endfor %
  </section>
{% endif %}

建议:

def peek(iterable):
    try:
        first = next(iterable)
    except StopIteration:
        return None
    return first, itertools.chain([first], iterable)

用法:

res = peek(mysequence)
if res is None:
    # sequence is empty.  Do stuff.
else:
    first, mysequence = res
    # Do something with first, maybe?
    # Then iterate over the sequence:
    for element in mysequence:
        # etc.