[issue14924] re.finditer() oddity

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

> All iterators are always true,

More generally, all objects are true by default.  The only false objects in Python are None; container-like objects with a __len__ that returns zero; and number-like objects with a __nonzero__ method that returns False.

Guido decided that iterators should not be treated like containers and should not have a __len__ method.

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nosy: +rhettinger

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