kj wrote:
re.findall finds all non-overlapping matches, but what if one wants all (maximal) matches, even those that overlap? All the solutions I can come up involve calling re.search iteratively, each time giving it a pos parameter starting just after the start of the previous match. Is there a built-in solution to such a task?
Not in the re module. It has been requested and is in my regex implementation at http://bugs.python.org/issue2636 if you want to try that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
