Tool69 wrote: > supposed I've got the following text : > > mytext = "for <myvar> in <somelist>:" > > with the following simple pattern : pattern = "<[a-z]+>" > > I use re.findall(pattern, mytext) wich returns : > ['<myvar>','<somelist>'] > > Now, I want my prog to return the positions of the returned list > elements, ie : > <myvar> was found at position 5 in mytext > <somelist> was found at position 16 in mytext
"findall" doesn't return that information; use "finditer" instead, and use the "span" or "start" method on the returned match object to get the position: for m in re.finditer(pattern, mytext): print m.span() </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list