Python regular expression to search for words in a sentence

Question

Im still learning the ropes with Python ad regular expressions and I need some help please! I am in need of a regular expression that can search a sentence for specific word

Answer 1

question = "the total number of staff in 30?"
find=["total","staff"]
words=re.findall("\w+",question)
result=[x for x in find if x in words]
result
['total', 'staff']