streaming a file object through re.finditer

[Erick]

I did try to see if I could get that to work, but I couldn't figure it
out. I'll see if I can play around more with that api.

So say I did investigate a little more to see how much work it would
take to adapt the re module to accept an iterator (while leaving the
current string api as another code path). Depending on how complicated
a change this would be, how much interest would there be in other
people using this feature? From what I understand about regular
expressions, they're essentially stream processing and don't need
backtracking, so reading from an interator should work too (right?).

Thanks,

-e