re.findall which returns a dict of named capturing groups?

Question

Inspired by a now-deleted question; given a regex with named groups, is there a method like findall which returns a list of dict with the named capturing groups instead of a list of tuple?

Given:

>>> import re >>> text = "bob sue jon richard harry" >>> pat = re.compile('(?P<name>[a-z]+)\s+(?P<name2>[a-z]+)') >>> pat.findall(text) [('bob', 'sue'), ('jon', 'richard')] 

Should instead give:

[{'name': 'bob', 'name2': 'sue'}, {'name': 'jon', 'name2': 'richard'}] 

Answer 1

>>> import re >>> s = "bob sue jon richard harry" >>> r = re.compile('(?P<name>[a-z]+)\s+(?P<name2>[a-z]+)') >>> [m.groupdict() for m in r.finditer(s)] [{'name2': 'sue', 'name': 'bob'}, {'name2': 'richard', 'name': 'jon'}]