Different behavior between re.finditer and re.findall

Question

I am using the following code:

CARRIS_REGEX=r\'(\\d+)([\\s\\w\\.\\-]+)(\\d+:\\d+)(\\d+m)         


        

Answer 1

You can't make them behave the same way, because they're different. If you really want to create a list of results from finditer, then you could use a list comprehension:

>>> [match for match in pattern.finditer(mailbody)]
[...]

In general, use a for loop to access the matches returned by re.finditer:

>>> for match in pattern.finditer(mailbody):
...     ...