one more question on regex
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Fri Jan 22 10:47:57 EST 2016
mg wrote:
> python 3.4.3
>
> import re
> re.search('(ab){2}','abzzabab')
> <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(4, 8), match='abab'>
>
>>>> re.findall('(ab){2}','abzzabab')
> ['ab']
>
> Why for search() the match is 'abab' and for findall the match is 'ab'?
I suppose someone thought it was convenient for findall to return the
explicit groups if there are any. If you want the whole match aka group(0)
you can get that with
>>> re.findall('(?:ab){2}','abzzabab')
['abab']
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