The question is garbage as phrased to be sure, but I think the auxiliary context matters a lot in this type of questions. Mentioning "python", when databases ar

The question is garbage as phrased to be sure, but I think the auxiliary context matters a lot in this type of questions. Mentioning "python", when databases are language agnostic, heavily implies the answer is a language feature. Furthermore the way the question is asked (reading from a script) also implies there is a specific non-open-ended answer. I still answered the question in my head on a whim, half-expecting it to be false, it's a really vague formulation. Sounds like the interviewer was randomly browsing language features and cutting and pasting random descriptions from whatever tutorial. Or maybe the company was using python generators in a really specific "data pulling" niche that the answer seemed extremely obvious to the technical team writing the questions and they forgot that outsiders are not wired to think of the same patterns.