python 正则 findall

一.findall

在字符串中找到正则表达式所匹配的所有子串，并返回一个列表，如果没有找到匹配的，则返回空列表。

1.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import re
if __name__ == '__main__':
    line = "Cats are smarter than dogs Cats are smarter than do0gs Cats are smarter than dog Cats are smarter than dogs";
    pattern = re.compile(r' (.*?) are (.*?) ')
    searchObj = pattern.findall( line, re.M | re.I)

    if searchObj:
        print("searchObj.group() : ", searchObj)
    else:
        print("Nothing found!!")

结果：

searchObj.group() :  [('than dogs Cats', 'smarter'), ('do0gs Cats', 'smarter'), ('dog Cats', 'smarter')]

2.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import re
if __name__ == '__main__':
    line = "Cats are smarter than dogs Cats are smarter than do0gs Cats are smarter than dog Cats are smarter than dogs";
    pattern = re.compile(r' (.*?) are (.*?) .*')
    searchObj = pattern.findall( line, re.M | re.I)

    if searchObj:
        print("searchObj.group() : ", searchObj)
    else:
        print("Nothing found!!")

结果:

searchObj.group() :  [('than dogs Cats', 'smarter')]

 总结：r' (.*?) are (.*?) .*' 和r' (.*?) are (.*?) ' 在findall 查询结果不同，因为前一个匹配最后的.*默认到最后了

如果按如下：

#!/usr/bin/python3
import re
if __name__ == '__main__':
    line = "Cats are smarter than dogs Cats are smarter than do0gs Cats are smarter than dog Cats are smarter than dogs";
    pattern = re.compile(r' (.*?) are (.*?) .*?')
    searchObj = pattern.findall( line, re.M | re.I)

    if searchObj:
        print("searchObj.group() : ", searchObj)
    else:
        print("Nothing found!!")

得到结果：

searchObj.group() :  [('than dogs Cats', 'smarter'), ('do0gs Cats', 'smarter'), ('dog Cats', 'smarter')]

结果和2一样，这是非贪婪匹配起到了作用。