Python - Locating the position of a regex match in a string?

Question

I\'m currently using regular expressions to search through RSS feeds to find if certain words and phrases are mentioned, and would then like to extract the text on either si

Answer 1

I don't think this question has been completely answered yet because all of the answers only give single match examples. The OP's question demonstrates the nuances of having 2 matches as well as a substring match which should not be reported because it is not a word/token.

To match multiple occurrences, one might do something like this:

iter = re.finditer(r"\bis\b", String)
indices = [m.start(0) for m in iter]

This would return a list of the two indices for the original string.