python – How to use regex to find all overlapping matches

I’m trying to find every 10 digit series of numbers within a larger series of numbers using re in Python 2.6.

I’m easily able to grab no overlapping matches, but I want every match in the number series. Eg.

in “123456789123456789”

I should get the following list:

[1234567891,2345678912,3456789123,4567891234,5678912345,6789123456,7891234567,8912345678,9123456789]

I’ve found references to a “lookahead”, but the examples I’ve seen only show pairs of numbers rather than larger groupings and I haven’t been able to convert them beyond the two digits.

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