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Question

I would like to use regular expressions to extract information from some chat logs. The format of the lines that are processed is 03:22:32 PM <b>blcArmadillo</b>. I used the python type () command to find that the variable messages are a callable-iterator. My question is: how can I navigate the called iterator most efficiently? They look like arrays where you can just use an index? The only way I could find the “retrieval” of the data is to iterate over the return values ​​and add them to the list, as shown below in the snipet code.

times = []
messages = re.compile(r'(?P<time>..:..:.. ..).*?<b>(?P<usrname>.*?):</b>').finditer(search)

for result in messages:
    times.append(result.group('time'))

Is there a more efficient way to do this? Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

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for result in messages:
    times.append(result.group('time'))

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