Alexander Q. 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...? The 're.search' function returns the whole thing, and if I want just the parentheses parts, I do tuples.group(1) or tuples.group(2) or tuples.group(3), depending on which set of parentheses I want.
The Fine Manual explains this. Is it not clear enough? If not, what parts are unclear -- we always appreciate suggested improvements.
http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.findall Or at the interactive prompt, type: help(re.findall) which gives you: Help on function findall in module re: findall(pattern, string, flags=0) Return a list of all non-overlapping matches in the string. If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a list of groups; this will be a list of tuples if the pattern has more than one group. Empty matches are included in the result. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
