Regex: Custom find all using re.search and groups()

custom_find_all.py

import re
file = open("SSH_2k.log.txt")

logs = file.readlines() # returns a list of strings

find_events = r'sshd\[(24200|24206)\]: (.+)' #regex to parse out event messages from process ID 24200 or 24206

def find_all(expression, strings):
     return [re.search(expression, string).groups() for string in strings 
             if re.search(expression, string)]
             
find_all(find_events, logs)