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Babak Damadi
Courses Plus Student 3,133 Pointsre.search vs. re.findall
So when to use re.search and when to use re.findall?? Are they both going through the entire text to search for pattern?
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Gavin Ralston
28,770 PointsPython 3.4 Docs for re.findall
Those are links directly to the methods you're asking about in the docs.
The difference is re.search is looking for the first match in the text, and findall is looking for every individual match in the text.
Hope that helps!