Question

How can I access captured groups if I do findall(r'regex(with)capturing.goes.here') ?
I know I can do it through finditer, but I don’t want to iterate.

Answer 1

findall just returns the captured groups:

>>> re.findall('abc(de)fg(123)', 'abcdefg123 and again abcdefg123')
[('de', '123'), ('de', '123')]

Relevant doc excerpt:

Return all non-overlapping matches of
pattern in string, as a list of
strings. The string is scanned
left-to-right, and matches are
returned in the order found. If one or
more groups are present in the
pattern, return a list of groups; this
will be a list of tuples if the
pattern has more than one group. Empty
matches are included in the result
unless they touch the beginning of
another match.