re - multiple results

Michael Hoffman cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid
Fri Jun 10 19:59:45 EDT 2005


Pingveno wrote:
> I'm working on the Python Challenge (make sure to try it:
> http://www.pythonchallenge.com). One of the puzzles requires the use of
> regular expressions, but with multiple matches in the text. I tried to
> use re.findall(), but I only go one result instead of a list of results.
> 
>>>>print re.findall(r"myexpression",text)
> 
> ['AZBaCTR']
 >
> Or is it not a function issue?

Works for me. Although I usually prefer this idiom:

re_something = re.compile(r"pattern")
re_something.findall(text)

You're doing something else wrong.
-- 
Michael Hoffman



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