[docs] RegexObject findall, finditer docs misleading
Sandro Tosi
sandro.tosi at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 00:07:04 CEST 2011
Hello Sean,
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 20:36, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.RegexObject.findall
> On RegexObjects, finditer returns an iterator over MatchObjects, whereas
> findall returns a list of *strings*. This isn't mentioned anywhere in their
> documentation, but it is a pretty big distinction.
It's not explicitly mentioned, but this functions have clear remark
that they are similar to "other" functions, f.e.:
findall(string[, pos[, endpos]])
Similar to the findall() function
and following the "findall()" like you end up to:
re.findall(pattern, string[, flags])
Return all non-overlapping matches of pattern in string, as a list of strings.
The same applies for finditer().
Regards,
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