In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Peters wrote: >[Magnus Lie Hetland] >> Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the >> positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re >> API can only return the contents...? > >Read the docs for match objects, esp. the start(), end(), and span() >methods.
Right. I was just now editing the regex-stuff in my book for the second edition, and found that I had, in fact, written about just this behaviour. <blush/> Oh, well. I guess it's a feature I don't use much :} Thanks, anyway. -- Magnus Lie Hetland Fall seven times, stand up eight http://hetland.org [Japanese proverb] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
