Use re.finditer
:
import re
sentence = input("Give me a sentence ")
word = input("What word would you like to find ")
for match in re.finditer(word, sentence):
print (match.start(), match.end())
For word = "this"
and sentence = "this is a sentence this this"
this will yield the output:
(0, 4)
(19, 23)
(24, 28)