Overlapping Regular Expression Matches With findall()

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Mystilleef" wrote:

> Is there a simple flag to set to allow overlapping matches
> for the findall() regular expression method? In other words,
> if a string contains five occurrences of the string pattern
> "cat", calling findall on the string returns a list
> containing five "cat" strings. Is it possible for findall()
> to just return one "cat" string?

your definition of "overlapping" seems to be a bit odd, but assuming
your description is correct, the answer is no.

on the other hand, if you only want one hit, why not use "search"
instead of "findall" ?

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