scsoce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > say, when I try to search and match every char from variable length > string, such as string '123456', i tried re.findall( r'(\d)*, '12346' > ) , but only get '6' and Python doc indeed say: "If a group is > contained in a part of the pattern that matched multiple times, the > last match is returned."
Well, re.findall(r'(\d)*', '123456') returns ['6', ''] for me, but that's because re.findall returns the entire match, regardless of group contents. What you probably meant was something like re.search(r'(\d)*', '123456').group(1), which indeed returns '6', the contents of the last group matched. What problem are you trying to solve? Depending on this, the best tool might be either findall/finditer, or search/match. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
