Python regex parse stream

Question

Is there any way to use regex match on a stream in python? like

reg = re.compile(r\'\\w+\')
reg.match(StringIO.StringIO(\'aa aaa aa\'))

And

Answer 1

Yes - using the getvalue method:

import cStringIO
import re

data = cStringIO.StringIO("some text")
regex = re.compile(r"\w+")
regex.match(data.getvalue())