re.findall which returns a dict of named capturing groups?

Question

Inspired by a now-deleted question; given a regex with named groups, is there a method like findall which returns a list of dict with the named cap

Answer 1

you could switch to finditer

>>> import re
>>> text = "bob sue jon richard harry"
>>> pat = re.compile('(?P[a-z]+)\s+(?P[a-z]+)')
>>> for m in pat.finditer(text):
...     print m.groupdict()
... 
{'name2': 'sue', 'name': 'bob'}
{'name2': 'richard', 'name': 'jon'}