How you can get a true/false from a Python regular expressions?

When you use match and search methods of module re, if there is a match, it has bool value of True and if there is no match, you get None that has a bool value of False.

Match objects are always true, and None is returned if there is no match

>>> bool(re.search("def", "abcdefgh"))
True
>>> bool(re.search("rest", "pqrstuv"))
False

Rajendra Dharmkar

Updated on: 16-Jun-2020

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