matching parentheses in python regular expression

Question

I have something like

store(s)

ending line like 1 store(s) .. I want to match , it using python regular expression.

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Answer 1

Python offers two different primitive operations based on regular expressions: match checks for a match only at the beginning of the string, while search checks for a match anywhere in the string (this is what Perl does by default)

Straight from the docs, but it does come up alot.