How to find all the same words in a text?

[Samuel Karl Peterson]

attn.steven.kuo at gmail.com on 11 Feb 2007 08:16:11 -0800 didst step
forth and proclaim thus:

> More concisely:
> 
> import re
> 
> pattern = re.compile(r'\b324\b')
> indices = [ match.start() for match in
> pattern.finditer(target_string) ]
> print "Indices", indices
> print "Count: ", len(indices)
> 

Thank you, this is educational.  I didn't realize that finditer
returned match objects instead of tuples.

> Cheers,
> Steven
> 

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