Finding all regex matches by index?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Tue May 29 21:33:29 EDT 2012


I have a long string (possibly 100s of Mbytes) that I want to search for 
regex matches.  re.finditer() is *almost* what I want, but the problem 
is that it returns matching strings.  What I need is a list of offsets 
in the string where the regex matched.  Thus:

s = "this is a string"
find("is", s) => [2, 5]

Is there anything that does this?



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