[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-740026 ] re.finditer() listed as new in 2.2.?

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Bugs item #740026, was opened at 2003-05-19 20:52
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz (gradha)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: re.finditer() listed as new in 2.2.?

Initial Comment:
Documentation says re.finditer() is new in 2.2
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node99.html),
but this is not totally correct:

[gradha@ws5:0] [~/cms_freeze]$ python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Sep 10 2002, 17:49:17)
[GCC 3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.finditer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'finditer'

[0:arpa/g/gradha> /usr/pkg/bin/python2.2
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 13 2003, 22:53:11)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) (NetBSD nb3)] on netbsd1
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.finditer
<function finditer at 0x1201ed218>

The first log was produced on an 8.1 Suse default
distro. For a moment I wanted to blame Suse, but I
thought: "hey, let's blame the documentation!". Please
extend that version number to 2.2.2.

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>Comment By: Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz (gradha)
Date: 2003-06-06 19:41

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Maybe SRE should make it to the final documentation.

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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2003-05-20 07:19

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I recommend leaving it listed as new in 2.2 since that it the 
first time that "from sre import *" would find it.

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Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2003-05-20 03:37

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This is a bit of a weird case.  From looking through CVS,
finditer is in sre, but due to a bug it was not exported
from re.  So  import sre ; sre.finditer should work, but
from sre import * doesn't.  I'm not sure how best to handle
this.

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