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

re.findall(pattern.string)

findall() returns all non-overlapping matches of pattern in string as a list of strings.

re.finditer()

finditer() returns callable object.

In both functions, the string is scanned from left to right and matches are returned in order found.