Overlapping matches in Regular Expressions

2005-04-12 Thread André Søreng
With the re/sre module included with Python 2.4: pattern = (?Pid1avi)|(?Pid2avi|mp3) string2match = some string with avi in it matches = re.finditer(pattern, string2match) ... matches[0].groupdict() {'id2': None, 'id1': 'avi'} Which was expected since overlapping matches are ignored. But I would

Re: Overlapping matches in Regular Expressions

2005-04-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
André Søreng wrote: With the re/sre module included with Python 2.4: pattern = (?Pid1avi)|(?Pid2avi|mp3) string2match = some string with avi in it matches = re.finditer(pattern, string2match) ... matches[0].groupdict() {'id2': None, 'id1': 'avi'} Which was expected since overlapping