Re: Bug in re.findall?

Question posted by: Richie Hindle (Guest) on July 4th, 2008 12:55 PM

Hi Marcin,

Quote: subnetlist="192.168.100.0 , 192.168.101.0" ipre=re.compile("([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}") > Quote: Quote: >ipre.findall(subnetlist) ['100.', '101.']

Correct - it returns the most recently captured text for your sole group.

Quote: a=ipre.finditer(subnetlist) Quote: Quote: >a.next().group() '192.168.100.0'

Also correct, because match.group() returns the whole of the matched text.
If you wanted just your captured piece, you need this:

Quote: Quote: Quote: >a.next().group(1) '100.'

Hope that helps!

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