Regular Expressions: re.match() or re.search() to return multiple dictionaries

Question

In the Python course: Introduction to Regular Expressions in the Groups video, Kenneth teaches how to use re.search() to loop through a string made up of contacts names, jobs, emails...etc... and return a dictionary of that contacts information.

My question is: How would I use re.search() or re.match() to print multiple dictionaries, each one of a different contact?

In the Groups video, Kenneth Love prints a dictionary containing information for himself, but how could I print all the dictionaries for all the contacts?

Instead of printing:

{"first_name" : "Kenneth", "second_name" : "Love"} # and other info

How could I print:

{"first_name" : "Kenneth", "second_name" : "Love"...}

{"first_name" : "Jim", "second_name" : "Turner"....}

{"first_name" : "Sherlock", "second_name" : "Holmes"...}

etc...

Answer 1 · 2014-12-29T21:25:27Z

December 29, 2014 9:25pm

In the last video of the course, we use a method named re.finditer(). This method gives us an iterator (you can think of it as a list, but you can't index or slice it) that we can loop though. Each item in that iterator is a Match object, like we get with re.match() or re.search(), so you can do match.groupdict() for that object, assuming you called it match in your for loop.

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