Docs: Clarify the before_and_after() example (GH-28458) (#28464)

(cherry picked from commit fcbf9b1)

Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <[email protected]>

Author: 2 people

Doc/library/itertools.rst

@@ -859,10 +859,11 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
        """ Variant of takewhile() that allows complete
            access to the remainder of the iterator.
 
-           >>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, 'ABCdEfGhI')
-           >>> str.join('', all_upper)
+           >>> it = iter('ABCdEfGhI')
+           >>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, it)
+           >>> ''.join(all_upper)
            'ABC'
-           >>> str.join('', remainder)
+           >>> ''.join(remainder)     # takewhile() would lose the 'd'
            'dEfGhI'
 
            Note that the first iterator must be fully

Lib/test/test_itertools.py

@@ -2604,10 +2604,11 @@ def test_permutations_sizeof(self):
 >>> list(odds)
 [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
 
->>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, 'ABCdEfGhI')
->>> str.join('', all_upper)
+>>> it = iter('ABCdEfGhI')
+>>> all_upper, remainder = before_and_after(str.isupper, it)
+>>> ''.join(all_upper)
 'ABC'
->>> str.join('', remainder)
+>>> ''.join(remainder)
 'dEfGhI'
 
 >>> list(powerset([1,2,3]))