Truly Streaming Pattern Matching

The input can be either a string, like in Perl or the "re" module.

Or it can be an input file or file-like input of any kind (just so long as it has a ".read" method).

And it doesn't actually need to be text – you can pattern match an input stream of anything. And this is where generators come to the fore again.

New Models for Processing Text and XML with Python Sam Wilmott
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