For example, I have a string "#a=valuea;b=valueb;c=valuec;", and I will like to take out the values (valuea, valueb, and valuec). How do I do that in Python? The group method will only return the matched part. Thanks. p = re.compile('#a=*;b=*;c=*;') m = p.match(line) if m: print m.group(),