Finding the carret position in a regular expression

Tool69 kibleur.christophe at gmail.com
Thu Nov 23 04:36:56 EST 2006


Hi,
supposed I've got the following text :

mytext = "for <myvar> in <somelist>:"

with the following simple pattern : pattern = "<[a-z]+>"

I use re.findall(pattern, mytext) wich returns :
['<myvar>','<somelist>']

Now, I want my prog to return the positions of the returned list
elements, ie :
<myvar> was found at position 5 in mytext
<somelist> was found at position 16 in mytext

How can I implement this ? Sorry if it's trivial, that's the first time
I use regular expressions.
Thanks,
6Tool9




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