Python re.findall with groupdicts

Question

I kind of wish that there were a version of re.findall that returned groupdicts instead of just groups. Am I missing some simple way to accomplish the same result?

Does anybody know of a reason that this function doesn’t exist?

Answer

You could use the finditer() function. This will give you a sequence of match objects, so you can get the groupdict for each with:

[m.groupdict() for m in regex.finditer(search_string)]

Accepted Answer

You could use the finditer() function.  This will give you a sequence of match objects, so you can get the groupdict for each with:[m.groupdict() for m in regex.finditer(search_string)]

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