[Tutor] re.findall parentheses problem

[Michael Powe]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:09:21PM -0400, Michael Scharf wrote:

> Thank you.  I should have figured "groups" were the paren groups.  I see it
> clearly now.  And your solution will work for the larger thing I'm trying to
> do --- thanks.
 
> And yes: I know this matches some non-date-like dates, but the data is such
> that it should work out ok.

Hello,

I second the advice to use named groups.  This option makes it sooo
much easier to retrieve your captures; especially, if you have nested
groups. No more working out if the capture you want is in group 1 or
group 3.  Just matcher.group('January').

Thanks.

mp

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