[Python-Dev] Missing symbol in sre.py (Python 2.2.2b1)

[Guido van Rossum]

> There appears to still be a missing public symbol definition in the Python 
> 2.2.2b1 
> version of sre.py 
>  
> The documentation implies that finditer should work and indeed it is 
> defined 
> in the module if sys.hexversion > 0x02020000 however it is not listed in 
> the 
> __all__ module variable. 
>  
> This means that if I use 
>         import re 
> I am unable to use re.finditer but if I use 
>         import sre 
> then I can use sre.finditer. 
>  
> I thought that the recommended approach was to use import re. 
>  
> I think this is  the outstanding bug 585882 re.finditer which was for 
> Python 2.2.1. 

Thanks!  I fixed this just in time for the release.  I don't know
what Fredrik is doing these days, but fixing bugs in RE doesn't seem
to be a high priority for him... :-(

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)