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Python Regex Findall Function Explained

The document discusses the Python regex findall() function. It returns all matches to the regex pattern as a list of strings. If groups are used in the pattern, it returns matches as tuples with each item being a group match. Example 1 shows extracting all email addresses from a string into a list. Example 2 shows using groups to extract the username and domain into separate items in each tuple. findall() finds all non-overlapping matches in the left-to-right direction.

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Python Regex Findall Function Explained

The document discusses the Python regex findall() function. It returns all matches to the regex pattern as a list of strings. If groups are used in the pattern, it returns matches as tuples with each item being a group match. Example 1 shows extracting all email addresses from a string into a list. Example 2 shows using groups to extract the username and domain into separate items in each tuple. findall() finds all non-overlapping matches in the left-to-right direction.

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Python regex `findall` function

Python regex ndall() function explained with examples.

WE'LL COVER THE FOLLOWING

• Python string ndall


• Syntax
• Example 1
• Example 2: findall and Groups

Python string ndall #


findall() is a powerful function in the re module. It finds all the matches
and returns them as a list of strings, with each string representing one match.

Syntax #

[Link](pattern, string, flags=0)

The string is scanned left-to-right, and matches are returned in the order
found. If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a list of
groups . Empty matches are included in the result unless they touch the
beginning of another match.

Example 1 #
Find all and return the email addresses:

#!/usr/bin/python
import re

line = 'your alpha@[Link], blah beta@[Link] blah user'

emails = [Link](r'[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+', line)

if emails:
print emails
else:
print "No match!"

Example 2: findall and Groups #


Now let’s make a second example. Groups () can be combined with
findall() . If the pattern includes 2 or more parenthesis groups, then instead
of returning a list of strings, findall() returns a list of tuples. Each tuple
represents one match of the pattern, and inside the tuple is the group(1) ,
group(2) , etc.

The following example, will find, 'alpha' , '[Link]' , 'beta' ,


and '[Link]' .

#!/usr/bin/python
import re

line = 'your alpha@[Link], blah beta@[Link] blah user'

tuples = [Link](r'([\w\.-]+)@([\w\.-]+)', line)

if tuples:
print tuples
else:
print "No match!"

Once you have the list of tuples, you can loop over it to do some computation
for each tuple.

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