[Python-ideas] An iterable version of find/index for strings?

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This, I think, is a better point. If you need iterfind, there's a good
> chance you're going to want to replace the string with an mmap, an iterator
> around read, something that generates the string on the fly, etc. There will
> be _some_ programs for which str.iterfind is more useful than a generic
> iterfind function, but maybe not that many...

As Tom's original post shows, the existing methods are also designed
to make it relatively straightforward to implement an efficient
iterator if you do need it.

Cheers,
Nick.

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