On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:50:16 -0800, Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@[...].com>   
wrote:

>  Hi,
> 
>  How to find all occurences of a substring in a string? I want to
>  convert the following Perl code to Python.
> 
>  Thanks,
> 
>  Laszlo
> 
>  ==========
> 
>  my $text = '<a href="ad1">sdqs</a><a href="ad2">sds</a><a  
>  href=ad3>qs</a>';
> 
>  while ($text =~ m#href="?(.*?)"?>#g)
>  {
>     print $1, "\n";
>  }
>  # output:
>  #
>  # ad1
>  # ad2
>  # ad3

Your regular expression pattern should work unchanged, and you probably  
want to use  http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.findall or similar  
to do the actual matching. If all you want to do is iterate over the  
matches, I would use re.finditer :-)

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