returning regex matches as lists

[Jonathan Lukens]

I am in the last phase of building a Django app based on something I
wrote in Java a while back.  Right now I am stuck on how to return the
matches of a regular expression as a list *at all*, and in particular
given that the regex has a number of groupings.  The only method I've
seen that returns a list is .findall(string), but then I get back the
groups as tuples, which is sort of a problem.

Thank you,
Jonathan