re grouping question

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  sr=re.compile(r'( - \w+\n)+')

Michael Esveldt wrote:

> I've got the following code:
> 
> s = """some text
>  - foo
>  - bar
>  - fnord
> test..."""
> list_re = re.compile(r'( - .+\n)+')
> print list_re.search(s).groups()
> 
> which produces, (' - fnord\n',) when what I was expecting was matching 
> all the lines. What I'm really looking for is something more like (' - 
> foo\n - bar\n - fnord\n',) or (even better) (' - foo\n', ' - bar\n', ' - 
> fnord\n').
> 
> I tried this in perl and got the same results, in tcl it matches what I 
> want, but who knows about tcl.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael