Hello, I really like the finditer() method of the re module. I'm having difficulty at the moment, however, because finditer() still creates a callable-iterator oject, even when no match is found. This is undesirable in cases where I would like to circumvent execution of code meant to parse out data from my finditer() object.
I know that if I place a finditer() object in an iterative for loop, the loop will not execute, but is there some way I can test to see if the object contains no matches in the first place? I thought about using .next() but I don't want to lose the ability to process the first (sometimes only) match in the finditer() object. Thanks in advance, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
