How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?

Question

I switched from Perl to Python about a year ago and haven\'t looked back. There is only one idiom that I\'ve ever found I can do more easily in Perl than in Python:<

Answer 1

Yeah, it's kind of annoying. Perhaps this will work for your case.

import re

class ReCheck(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.result = None
    def check(self, pattern, text):
        self.result = re.search(pattern, text)
        return self.result

var = 'bar stuff'
m = ReCheck()
if m.check(r'foo(.+)',var):
    print m.result.group(1)
elif m.check(r'bar(.+)',var):
    print m.result.group(1)
elif m.check(r'baz(.+)',var):
    print m.result.group(1)

EDIT: Brian correctly pointed out that my first attempt did not work. Unfortunately, this attempt is longer.