re question

[Amit Gupta]

On Feb 7, 10:38 am, Amit Gupta <emaila... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python'ites
>
> I searched around "google" to find the answer to this question, but I
> can't:
>
> I have a named regexp : x = re.compile("(?P<me>[a-z]+)")
>
> What I want is an iterator, that can return me both the "groupname"
> and the matched string,  e.g:
>
> m = x.search("aa")
>
> Somehow, I want to get
> {"me" : "aa"}, either as dictionary or some iterable form.
>
> All I found is, I need to know the "groupname" to get the
> corresponding match. Any help is appreciated.
>
> A

Got It. re.search() has a function groupdict(), doing precisely that.