Is re.findall guaranteed to be "in order?"

[Fredrik Lundh]

Joshua Kugler wrote:

> Experimenting has shown me that re.findall() will return a list with the
> matches in the order it found them.

"in the order it found them" doesn't really say much, does it? ;-)

"findall" and "finditer" both scans the string from left to right, and 
will return matches in that order.

(the documentation is a bit vague, so if you have the time, please add a 
request for clarification to the bug tracker)

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