A vote for re scanner

[Alex Martelli]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
>> Wade Leftwich wrote:
>>    ...
>> > A scanner is constructed from a regex object and a string to be
>> > scanned. Each call to the scanner's search() method returns the next
>> > match object of the regex on the string. So to work on a string that
>> > has multiple matches, it's the bee's roller skates.
>>
>> ...if that method's name was 'next' (and an appropriate __iter__
>> also present) it might be even cooler, though...
> 
> re.finditer

Yep.  So the scanner isn't warranted any longer, right?


Alex