python - Capturing group with findall?

Question

How can I access captured groups if I do findall(r'regex(with)capturing.goes.here') ? I know I can do it through finditer, but I don't want to iterate.

Answer 1

findall just returns the captured groups:

>>> re.findall('abc(de)fg(123)', 'abcdefg123 and again abcdefg123')
[('de', '123'), ('de', '123')]

Relevant doc excerpt:

Return all non-overlapping matches of pattern in string, as a list of strings. The string is scanned left-to-right, and matches are returned in the order found. If one or more groups are present in the pattern, return a list of groups; this will be a list of tuples if the pattern has more than one group. Empty matches are included in the result unless they touch the beginning of another match.