re.finditer

[Michele Simionato]

According to the standard library
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node99.html :

finditer(pattern, string) 
     Return an iterator over all non-overlapping matches for the RE
pattern
     in string. For each match, the iterator returns a match object.
Empty
     matches are included in the result. New in version 2.2. 

However:

$ python
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Apr  9 2002, 13:10:27)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.finditer('r+?','library')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'finditer'

The command re.finditer is not recognized ! All the other commands
work,
for instance

>>> re.findall('r+?','library')
['r', 'r']

find all the occurences of the letter 'r' in the word library as I
want.
I can live without finditer; however I would like to know  if others
have
experienced the same problem. I installed the standard RPM packages
from http://www.python.org/2.2.1/rpms.html

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P.S. I discovered later that the same problem is in the Windows
version too.