Function search

pattern/text/search.py:892–895

Returns a list of all matches found in the given sentence.

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

    return compile(pattern, *args, **kwargs).match(sentence) 

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

def escape(string):
    """ Returns the string with control characters for Pattern syntax escaped.