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Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected

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2011/4/20 John Nagle <nagle@animats.com>:
> Here's something that surprised me about Python regular expressions.
>
>>>> krex = re.compile(r"^([a-z])+$")
>>>> s = "abcdef"
>>>> ms = krex.match(s)
>>>> ms.groups()
> ('f',)
>
>...

> "If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that matched multiple
> times, the last match is returned."
>
> That's kind of lame, though. I'd expect that there would be some way
> to retrieve all matches.
>
>                                        John Nagle
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Hi,
do you mean something like:

>>> import regex
>>> ms = regex.match(r"^([a-z])+$", "abcdef")
>>> ms.captures(1)
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']
>>>

>>> help(ms.captures)
Help on built-in function captures:

captures(...)
    captures([group1, ...]) --> list of strings or tuple of list of strings.
    Return the captures of one or more subgroups of the match.  If there is a
    single argument, the result is a list of strings; if there are multiple
    arguments, the result is a tuple of lists with one item per argument; if
    there are no arguments, the captures of the whole match is returned.  Group
    0 is the whole match.

>>>

cf.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex

hth,
  vbr

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Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-04-20 12:20 -0700
  Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-04-20 19:23 +0000
    Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-04-20 13:34 -0700
      Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-04-21 13:16 +0000
        Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-04-24 12:43 -0700
  Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-04-20 21:03 +0100
  Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 15:57 +0200
  Re: Groups in regular expressions don't repeat as expected Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 20:36 +0200

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