Paul Rubin wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>say i have string like this >>astring = 'abcd efgd 1234 fsdf gfds abcde 1234' >>if i want to find which postion is 1234, how can i achieve this...? i >>want to use index() but it only give me the first occurence. I want to >>know the positions of both "1234" >> >> > >Most straightforwardly with re.findall -- see the docs. > > Not quite. The findall will list the matching strings, not their positions. -- He'll get ['1234','1234']. The finditer function will work for his requirements. See my other post to this thread. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list