On Jul 4, 12:33 pm, Marcin Krol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is there a bug in re.findall in Python 2.4? See: > > subnetlist="192.168.100.0 , 192.168.101.0" > ipre=re.compile("([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}") > > >>> ipre.findall(subnetlist) > > ['100.', '101.'] > > But: > > a=ipre.finditer(subnetlist) > > >>> a.next().group() > '192.168.100.0' > >>> a.next().group() > '192.168.101.0' > >>> a.next().group() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > StopIteration > > Also: > > >>> ipre.search(subnetlist).group() > '192.168.100.0' > > Is this a bug or am I doing smth wrong?
Look strange but match the Python documentation for re.findall: "If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a list of groups; this will be a list of tuples if the pattern has more than one group" you must use this RE for your example to match what you expect: ipre=re.compile("(?:[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}") but using re.finditer is IMHO better. Cheer, Dom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list