> What would you like to see instead? I had mostly just expected that there was some method that would return each entire match as an item on a list. I have this pattern:
>>> import re >>> corporate_names = >>> re.compile(u'(?u)\\b([А-Я]{2,}\\s+)([<<"][а-яА-Я]+)(\\s*-?[а-яА-Я]+)*([>>"])') >>> terms = corporate_names.findall(sourcetext) Which matches a specific way that Russian company names are formatted. I was expecting a method that would return this: >>> terms [u'string one', u'string two', u'string three'] ...mostly because I was working it this way in Java and haven't learned to do things the Python way yet. At the suggestion from someone on the list, I just used list() on all the tuples like so: >>> detupled_terms = [list(term_tuple) for term_tuple in terms] >>> delisted_terms = [''.join(term_list) for term_list in detupled_terms] which achieves the desired result, but I am not a programmer and so I would still be interested to know if there is a more elegant way of doing this. I appreciate the help. Jonathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list