find all index positions

[Gary Herron]

Paul Rubin wrote:

>micklee74 at hotmail.com writes:
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>>say i have string like this
>>astring = 'abcd efgd 1234 fsdf gfds abcde 1234'
>>if i want to find which postion is 1234, how can i achieve this...? i
>>want to use index() but it only give me the first occurence. I want to
>>know the positions of both "1234"
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>Most straightforwardly with re.findall -- see the docs.
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Not quite.  The findall will list the matching strings, not their 
positions. -- He'll get ['1234','1234'].  The finditer function will 
work for his requirements. See my other post  to this thread.