"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are welcome to change the specifications of findall() and turn it into > an iterator which returns each match one at a time instead of all at once, > but then the name is misleading, wouldn't you agree?
The regex module has since 2.2 a function (and method for regex objects) called finditer that does exactly that. Perhaps str (and unicode) should have it too for consistency ? George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list