re.finditer

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

> 
> You want 'import sre'
> 
>>>> import sre
>>>> import re
>>>> re.finditer('r+?','library')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'finditer'
>>>> sre.finditer('r+?','library')
> <callable-iterator object at 0x4018dda0>
> 
> Is this a documentation bug?
> 

****WHAT****??????

import re simply is a wrapper around sre to hide the fact that around 1.5 the
regex engine was updated.

below is my re.py from 2.2.1.

engine = "sre"
# engine = "pre"

if engine == "sre":
    # New unicode-aware engine
    from sre import *
    from sre import __all__
else:
    # Old 1.5.2 engine.  This one supports 8-bit strings only,
    # and will be removed in 2.0 final.
    from pre import *
    from pre import __all__

so it looks like Lundh (or someone else) forgot to make finditer exportable
from sre.