In <mailman.7.1250097801.2903.python-l...@python.org> MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:
>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. Cool. Thanks! kynn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
