Raise error early if Tensor is not iterator.

Now iter(tensor) would raise an error if tensor is not iterable. Earlier, iter(tensor) never raised an error but next(iter(tensor)) could.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 293717639
Change-Id: Ic01280ff174478b4dbd2954163f9e76d8ed00d02

tensorflow/python/eager/tensor_test.py

@@ -272,6 +272,12 @@ class TFETensorTest(test_util.TensorFlowTestCase):
     for list_element, tensor_element in zip(l, t):
       self.assertAllEqual(list_element, tensor_element.numpy())
 
+  def testIterateOverScalarTensorRaises(self):
+    t = _create_tensor(1)
+    with self.assertRaisesRegexp(TypeError,
+                                 "Cannot iterate over a scalar tensor"):
+      iter(t)
+
   @test_util.run_gpu_only
   def testStringTensorOnGPU(self):
     with ops.device("/device:GPU:0"):

tensorflow/python/framework/ops.py

@@ -569,8 +569,7 @@ class Tensor(_TensorLike):
     if shape[0] is None:
       raise TypeError(
           "Cannot iterate over a tensor with unknown first dimension.")
-    for i in xrange(shape[0]):
-      yield self[i]
+    return _TensorIterator(self, shape[0])
 
   def _shape_as_list(self):
     if self.shape.ndims is not None:
@@ -6705,3 +6704,24 @@ def _reconstruct_sequence_inputs(op_def, inputs, attrs):
 
   assert i == len(inputs)
   return grouped_inputs
+
+
+class _TensorIterator(object):
+  """Iterates over the leading dim of a Tensor. Performs no error checks."""
+
+  def __init__(self, tensor, dim0):
+    self._tensor = tensor
+    self._index = 0
+    self._limit = dim0
+
+  def __iter__(self):
+    return self
+
+  def __next__(self):
+    if self._index == self._limit:
+      raise StopIteration
+    result = self._tensor[self._index]
+    self._index += 1
+    return result
+
+  next = __next__  # python2.x compatibility.

tensorflow/python/framework/ops_test.py

@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ class TensorAndShapeTest(test_util.TensorFlowTestCase):
         ops._NodeDef("FloatOutput", "myop"), ops.Graph(), [], [dtypes.float32])
     t = op.outputs[0]
     with self.assertRaisesRegexp(TypeError, "Cannot iterate"):
-      next(iter(t))
+      iter(t)
 
   def testIterableGraph(self):
     if context.executing_eagerly():