Python regular expressions return true/false

Question

Using Python regular expressions how can you get a True/False returned? All Python returns is:

<_sre.SRE_Match object at ...>         


        

Answer 1

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