[Python-Dev] Missing symbol in sre.py (Python 2.2.2b1) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:23:06 -0400

There appears to still be a missing public symbol definition in the Python 2.2.2b1 version of sre.py

The documentation implies that finditer should work and indeed it is defined in the module if sys.hexversion > 0x02020000 however it is not listed in the all module variable. This means that if I use import re I am unable to use re.finditer but if I use import sre then I can use sre.finditer. I thought that the recommended approach was to use import re. I think this is the outstanding bug 585882 re.finditer which was for Python 2.2.1.

Thanks! I fixed this just in time for the release. I don't know what Fredrik is doing these days, but fixing bugs in RE doesn't seem to be a high priority for him... :-(

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