Splitting a string into an iterator

Does python have a build-in (meaning in the standard libraries) to do a split on strings that produces an iterator rather than a list? I have in mind working on very long strings and not needing to consume most of the string.

How do you split a string in python with iteration?

Not directly splitting strings as such, but the re module has re. finditer() (and corresponding finditer() method on any compiled regular expression). An example of how to use re. finditer() to iterate split strings would be helpful.

What does Splitlines mean in Python?

The splitlines() method splits a string into a list. The splitting is done at line breaks.

Not directly splitting strings as such, but the re module has re.finditer() (and corresponding finditer() method on any compiled regular expression).

@Zero asked for an example:

>>> import re >>> s = "The quick    brown\nfox" >>> for m in re.finditer('\S+', s): ...     print(m.span(), m.group(0)) ...  (0, 3) The (4, 9) quick (13, 18) brown (19, 22) fox