How to concisely cascade through multiple regex statements in Python

Question

My dilemma: I\'m passing my function a string that I need to then perform numerous regex manipulations on. The logic is if there\'s a match in the first regex, do one thing

Answer 1

Similar question from back in september: How do you translate this regular-expression idiom from Perl into Python?

Using global variables in a module maybe not the best way to do it, but converting it into a class:

import re

class Re(object):
  def __init__(self):
    self.last_match = None
  def match(self,pattern,text):
    self.last_match = re.match(pattern,text)
    return self.last_match
  def search(self,pattern,text):
    self.last_match = re.search(pattern,text)
    return self.last_match

gre = Re()
if gre.match(r'foo',text):
  # do something with gre.last_match
elif gre.match(r'bar',text):
  # do something with gre.last_match
else:
  # do something else