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Expand Up @@ -1808,7 +1808,7 @@ one as :func:`search` does. For example, if a writer wanted to
find all of the adverbs in some text, they might use :func:`findall` in
the following manner::

>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but found quickly by police."
>>> re.findall(r"\w+ly\b", text)
['carefully', 'quickly']

Expand All @@ -1822,11 +1822,11 @@ instead of strings. Continuing with the previous example, if a writer wanted
to find all of the adverbs *and their positions* in some text, they would use
:func:`finditer` in the following manner::

>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but found quickly by police."
>>> for m in re.finditer(r"\w+ly\b", text):
... print('%02d-%02d: %s' % (m.start(), m.end(), m.group(0)))
07-16: carefully
40-47: quickly
37-44: quickly


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