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Python 201 - Interactively Learn Advanced Concepts in Python 3

Finding Multiple Instances

Explore how to locate multiple occurrences of patterns in a string using Python's regular expressions. Learn to use findall for lists of matches and finditer for iterators of match objects, enabling you to handle multiple instances effectively.

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Up to this point, all we’ve seen is how to find the first match in a string. But what if we have a string that has multiple matches in it.

Let’s review how to find a single match:

Python 3.5
import re
silly_string = "the cat in the hat"
pattern = "the"
match = re.search(pattern, silly_string)
print (match.group())

Now we can see that there are ...