How to find all possibly overlapping matches?

[kj]

In <mailman.7.1250097801.2903.python-list at python.org> MRAB <python at 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