Doug Schwarz wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>How do I make a regular expression which will match the same character
>>repeated one or more times, instead of matching repetitions of any
>>(possibly non-same) characters like ".+" does? In other words, I want a
>>pattern like this:
>>
>> >>> re.findall(".+", "foo") # not what I want
>> ['foo']
>> >>> re.findall("something", "foo") # what I want
>> ['f', 'oo']
>
>
>
> How's this?
>
> >>> [x[0] for x in re.findall(r'((.)\2*)', 'abbcccddddcccbba')]
> ['a', 'bb', 'ccc', 'dddd', 'ccc', 'bb', 'a']
>
I think it's fantastic, but I'd be bound to say that given that it's the
same as what I posted almost two days ago :-)
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