There is no simple built-in string function that does what you’re looking for, but you could use the more powerful regular expressions:
import re
[m.start() for m in re.finditer(‘test’, ‘test test test test’)]
#[0, 5, 10, 15]
If you want to find overlapping matches, lookahead will do that:
[m.start() for m in re.finditer('(?=tt)', 'ttt')]
#[0, 1]
If you want a reverse find-all without overlaps, you can combine positive and negative lookahead into an expression like this:
search = 'tt'
[m.start() for m in re.finditer(‘(?=%s)(?!.{1,%d}%s)’ % (search, len(search)-1, search), ‘ttt’)]
#[1]
re.finditer returns a generator, so you could change the [] in the above to () to get a generator instead of a list which will be more efficient if you’re only iterating through the results once.
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