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Documentation for re.findall and re.finditer lacks "ordering" information #47634
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| BPO | 3384 |
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| Nosy | @birkenfeld |
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assignee = 'https://github.com/birkenfeld'
closed_at = <Date 2008-07-19.13:48:52.178>
created_at = <Date 2008-07-16.18:31:54.876>
labels = ['type-feature', 'docs']
title = 'Documentation for re.findall and re.finditer lacks "ordering" information'
updated_at = <Date 2008-07-19.18:32:37.218>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/jkugler'bugs.python.org fields:
activity = <Date 2008-07-19.18:32:37.218>
actor = 'jkugler'
assignee = 'georg.brandl'
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components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2008-07-16.18:31:54.876>
creator = 'jkugler'
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
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type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue3384'
versions = ['Python 2.6', 'Python 2.5']
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jkugler commentedon Jul 16, 2008
According to a discussion on comp.lang.python, re.findall and
re.finditer scan strings from left to right, and returns them in the
order it found them. It would be nice to note that in documentation.
birkenfeld commentedon Jul 19, 2008
Added info in r65139.
jkugler commentedon Jul 19, 2008
That looks good. Thanks!