Python re.findall with groupdicts

Question

I kind of wish that there were a version of re.findall that returned groupdicts instead of just groups. Am I missing some simple way to accomplish the same result? (Does anybody know of a reason that this function doesn't exist?)

Answer 1

You could use the finditer() function. This will give you a sequence of match objects, so you can get the groupdict for each with:

[m.groupdict() for m in regex.finditer(search_string)]