How come regex match objects aren't iterable even though they implement __getitem__?

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How come regex match objects aren't iterable even though they implement __getitem__?

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Track title: CC C Schuberts Piano Sonata No 13 D

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Chapters
00:00 Question
01:03 Accepted answer (Score 59)
02:46 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5235...

Question links:
[implementing a ]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9265...

Accepted answer links:
[tp_as_sequence]: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj....
[tp_as_mapping]: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj....
[[1]]: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj....
[[2]]: https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj....
[SRE_Match]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/7...
[PyObject_GetIter]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/7...
[PySequenceCheck]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/7...

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