one more question on regex
mg
noOne at nowhere.com
Fri Jan 22 10:50:11 EST 2016
Il Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:32:57 +0000, mg ha scritto:
> 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'?
finditer seems to be consistent with search:
regex = re.compile('(ab){2}')
for match in regex.finditer('abzzababab'):
print ("%s: %s" % (match.start(), match.span() ))
...
4: (4, 8)
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