diff --git a/django/utils/datastructures.py b/django/utils/datastructures.py
index 06cf6c6b75b..adcc3546d0a 100644
--- a/django/utils/datastructures.py
+++ b/django/utils/datastructures.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from types import GeneratorType
+
 from django.utils.copycompat import deepcopy
 
 
@@ -65,6 +67,11 @@ class SortedDict(dict):
     def __init__(self, data=None):
         if data is None:
             data = {}
+        elif isinstance(data, GeneratorType):
+            # Unfortunately we need to be able to read a generator twice.  Once
+            # to get the data into self with our super().__init__ call and a
+            # second time to setup keyOrder correctly
+            data = list(data)
         super(SortedDict, self).__init__(data)
         if isinstance(data, dict):
             self.keyOrder = data.keys()
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/datastructures/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/datastructures/tests.py
index e658f3302e0..b7885e65a4c 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/datastructures/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/datastructures/tests.py
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ MultiValueDictKeyError: "Key 'lastname' not found in <MultiValueDict: {'position
 >>> d.setlist('lastname', ['Holovaty', 'Willison'])
 >>> d.getlist('lastname')
 ['Holovaty', 'Willison']
->>> d.values() 
+>>> d.values()
 ['Developer', 'Simon', 'Willison']
->>> list(d.itervalues()) 
+>>> list(d.itervalues())
 ['Developer', 'Simon', 'Willison']
 
 ### SortedDict #################################################################
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ True
 >>> d.pop('one', 'missing')
 'missing'
 
+>>> SortedDict((i, i) for i in xrange(3))
+{0: 0, 1: 1, 2: 2}
+
 We don't know which item will be popped in popitem(), so we'll just check that
 the number of keys has decreased.
 >>> l = len(d)