Python re.search

Question

I have a string variable containing

string = \"123hello456world789\"

string contain no spacess. I want to write a regex such that prints o

Answer 1

@InbarRose answer shows why re.search works that way, but if you want match objects rather than just the string outputs from re.findall, use re.finditer

>>> for match in re.finditer(pat, string):
...     print match.groups()
...
('hello',)
('world',)
>>>

Or alternatively if you wanted a list

>>> list(re.finditer(pat, string))
[<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x022DB320>, <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x022DB660>]

It's also generally a bad idea to use string as a variable name given that it's a common module.