Python Regular Expression to Match the Whole line

Question

I\'m new to scripting and have been reading about how to use regular expressions.

I want to fetch the complete line matching a pattern.

my ouptut is:

Answer 1

Try

cmd = re.search('^.*\d*% packet loss.*$', ping_result[int(i)], re.M|re.I)
print cmd.group()

'^' and '$' match the start and end of a line, respectively. You also don't need the parentheses unless you want to select the packet loss separately.