Function match

pattern/text/search.py:887–890

Returns the first match found in the given sentence, or None.

(pattern, sentence, *args, **kwargs)

        raise TypeError, "can't compile '%s' object" % pattern.__class__.__name__

def match(pattern, sentence, *args, **kwargs):
    """ Returns the first match found in the given sentence, or None.
    """
    return compile(pattern, *args, **kwargs).match(sentence) 

def search(pattern, sentence, *args, **kwargs):
    """ Returns a list of all matches found in the given sentence.