Getting captured group in one line

Question

There is a known \"pattern\" to get the captured group value or an empty string if no match:

match = re.search(\'regex\', \'text\')
if match:
    value = mat         


        

Answer 1

One line for you, although not quite Pythonic.

find_text = lambda text: (lambda m: m and m.group(1) or '')(PATTERN.search(text))

Indeed, in Scheme programming language, all local variable constructs can be derived from lambda function applications.