sre.finditer break down: is this a bug?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jane Austine wrote:

> Newly added function sre.finditer and (matchedObject.)finditer
> break down and the system crushes on win32 when requested for
> next() after StopIteration.
>
> see:
> >> import sre
> >> fi=sre.finditer(r'\s','a b')
> >> fi.next()
> >> fi.next()
> >> fi.next() #system halts for ever.

well, I'm tempted to just say "don't do that" (if python tells
you to stop iterating, stop iterating ;-), but it sure looks like
a bug.

bugs are best reported on sourceforge; see

    http://www.python.org/dev/

for details and links.

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