Positions of regexp groups

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the
positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re
API can only return the contents...?

 

[John Machin]

Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the
positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re
API can only return the contents...?

These documented methods of the match object aren't simple enough???
"""
start( [group])
end( [group])

Return the indices of the start and end of the substring matched by
group
"""


and there's span() which returns a tuple (start, end) ... what simpler
could you ask for, Mr Occam?

 

[Tim Peters]

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the
positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re
API can only return the contents...?

Read the docs for match objects, esp. the start(), end(), and span() methods.

 

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Just a quick question: Does anyone have a simple way of finding the
positions (start, end) of the groups in a regexp match? AFAICS, the re
API can only return the contents...?

Read the docs for match objects, esp. the start(), end(), and span()
methods.

Right. I was just now editing the regex-stuff in my book for the
second edition, and found that I had, in fact, written about just this
behaviour. <blush/>

Oh, well. I guess it's a feature I don't use much :}

Thanks, anyway.