RegEx: find all occurances of a single character in a string

[Franz Steinhaeusler]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:19:35 +0100, "Fredrik Lundh"
<fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

>Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:
>> given a string:
>>
>> st="abcdatraataza"
>>    ^   ^     ^ ^ (these should be found)
>> I want to get the positions of all single 'a' characters.
>
>for m in re.finditer("a+", st):
>    if len(m.group()) == 1:
>        print m.start()
>
>or, perhaps:
>
>indexes = [m.start() for m in re.finditer("a+", st) if len(m.group()) == 1]
>
></F> 
>
>

Great!

thank you for your quick and helpful reply!

-- 
Franz Steinhaeusler