(experimental) "finditer" method/function. this works pretty much

like findall, but returns an iterator (which returns match objects)
instead of a list of strings/tuples.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/sre.py b/Lib/sre.py
index e7517f5..88b4fab 100644
--- a/Lib/sre.py
+++ b/Lib/sre.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ This module also defines an exception 'error'.
 
 """
 
+import sys
 import sre_compile
 import sre_parse
 
@@ -164,6 +165,15 @@ def findall(pattern, string):
     Empty matches are included in the result."""
     return _compile(pattern, 0).findall(string)
 
+if sys.hexversion >= 0x02020000:
+    def finditer(pattern, string):
+        """Return an iterator over all non-overlapping matches in
+        the string.  For each match, the iterator returns a match
+        object.
+
+        Empty matches are included in the result."""
+        return _compile(pattern, 0).finditer(string)
+
 def compile(pattern, flags=0):
     "Compile a regular expression pattern, returning a pattern object."
     return _compile(pattern, flags)