re question

[Amit Gupta]

Python'ites

I searched around "google" to find the answer to this question, but I
can't:

I have a named regexp : x = re.compile("(?P<me>[a-z]+)")

What I want is an iterator, that can return me both the "groupname"
and the matched string, e.g:

m = x.search("aa")

Somehow, I want to get
{"me" : "aa"}, either as dictionary or some iterable form.


All I found is, I need to know the "groupname" to get the
corresponding match. Any help is appreciated.

A

 

[Amit Gupta]

Python'ites

I searched around "google" to find the answer to this question, but I
can't:

I have a named regexp : x = re.compile("(?P<me>[a-z]+)")

What I want is an iterator, that can return me both the "groupname"
and the matched string, e.g:

m = x.search("aa")

Somehow, I want to get
{"me" : "aa"}, either as dictionary or some iterable form.

All I found is, I need to know the "groupname" to get the
corresponding match. Any help is appreciated.

A

Got It. re.search() has a function groupdict(), doing precisely that.

 

[Hyuga]

Python'ites

I searched around "google" to find the answer to this question, but I
can't:

I have a named regexp : x = re.compile("(?P<me>[a-z]+)")

What I want is an iterator, that can return me both the "groupname"
and the matched string, e.g:

m = x.search("aa")

Somehow, I want to get
{"me" : "aa"}, either as dictionary or some iterable form.

All I found is, I need to know the "groupname" to get the
corresponding match. Any help is appreciated.

A

Got It. re.search() has a function groupdict(), doing precisely that.

Just to be pedantic so that no one else who might read this does not
get confused, re.search() does not "[have] a function groupdict()".
re.search(), like many function in the re module returns a match
object. Match objects have a groupdict() method.

Hyuga