How can I store multiple strings into a list from regex?

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This is my string:

<span class="word">blue</span><span class="word">red</span><span class="word">yellow</span><span class="word">orange</span>

Usually I would use this just to get one result into a variable:

result = re.search('(<span class="word">)(.*)(</span>)', string)
color = result.group(2)

But now I want to get every result from my string and store each into a list. How would I go about doing this?

You should use BeautifulSoup for such purpose.

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Commented May 11, 2012 at 18:00 — theharshest
– theharshest, Commented May 11, 2012 at 18:00

dav1d · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-11 17:56:04Z

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There is re.findall. For larger strings I recommend re.finditer.

answered May 11, 2012 at 17:56

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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use findall instead of search

findall() Find all substrings where the RE matches, and returns them as a list.

finditer() Find all substrings where the RE matches, and returns them as an iterator.

http://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html

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