[Python-Dev] iterator support for SRE? (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:55:36 -0400

+1 on finditer.

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... will have to think about scanner; I agree that it may seem to be vaguely useful, but cannot think of a use case that isn't better handled by findall/split/sub or iterfind. can anyone?

It's in desperate need of usage docs. The few times I recall seeing it mentioned on c.l.py, it was from someone staring at the code unable to reverse-engineer its intended use. Therefore I don't believe it's gotten a good trial, and so I'm at best -0 on making it official now. In my own stuff I've built directly on top of .lastindex/.lastgroup instead -- perhaps only because it's easier to remember how to use your own undocumented stuff than somebody else's .

the-folks-most-likely-to-use-a-framework-are-those-most-likely-to- write-their-own-ly y'rs - tim