On 11 Jan, 15:35, Jeremy <jlcon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am using re.split to separate some text into logical structures.
> The trouble is that re.split doesn't find everything while re.findall
> does; i.e.:
>
>
>
> > found = re.findall('^ 1', line, re.MULTILINE)
> > len(found)
> 6439
> > tables = re.split('^ 1', line, re.MULTILINE)
> > len(tables)
> > 1
>
> Can someone explain why these two commands are giving different
> results? I thought I should have the same number of matches (or maybe
> different by 1, but not 6000!)
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
When in doubt, the documentation is a good place to start :)
http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.split
re.split(pattern, string[, maxsplit=0])
http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.findall
re.findall(pattern, string[, flags])
Notice that re.split's optional third argument is not for passing
flags.
HTH
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