On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:32 PM,
mhearne808[insert-at-sign-here]gmail[insert-dot-here]com
<mhearne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a scenario:
>
> import re
> m = re.search('e','fredbarneybettywilma')
>
> Now, here's a stupid question:
> why doesn't m.groups() return ('e','e','e').Straight from the docs (http://docs.python.org/library/re.html ), emphasis mine: re.search(pattern, string[, flags]) "Scan through string looking for **a** location where the regular expression pattern produces **a** match [...]" Hence, it stops looking after the very first match. > I'm trying to figure out how to match ALL of the instances of a > pattern in one call - the group() and groups() return subgroups... how > do I get my search to get me all of the matching subgroups? I think you want re.finditer() or re.findall(). Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
