How can I find all matches to a regular expression in Python?
Use re.findall
or re.finditer
instead.
re.findall(pattern, string)
returns a list of matching strings.
re.finditer(pattern, string)
returns an iterator over MatchObject
objects.
Example:
re.findall( r'all (.*?) are', 'all cats are smarter than dogs, all dogs are dumber than cats')# Output: ['cats', 'dogs'][x.group() for x in re.finditer( r'all (.*?) are', 'all cats are smarter than dogs, all dogs are dumber than cats')]# Output: ['all cats are', 'all dogs are']