On 26/06/12 23:30, Alexander Quest wrote:
My question is how does Python know to return just the part in the
parentheses and not to return the "blahblah" and the "yattayattayatta",
etc...?
If you want to know *how* Python does it you will have to read the
module code (probably in C so downloa
I'm a bit confused about extracting data using re.search or re.findall.
Say I have the following code: tuples =
re.findall(r'blahblah(\d+)yattayattayatta(\w+)moreblahblahblah(\w+)over',
text)
So I'm looking for that string in 'text', and I intend to extract the parts
which have parentheses around
