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| author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2012-11-04 05:00:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2012-11-04 05:00:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 729eda4a8c345bdfd7092dea155df22962cd0c9b (patch) | |
| tree | 608d3ed59c74404fb04d99b1910118239c2a3c45 | |
| parent | 5e3943317d2442b82ac56eafe29cc7d76ac4f0d2 (diff) | |
| parent | 7ce22d19403873d590bdda78b721e15510132d16 (diff) | |
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#16304: merge with 3.3.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 07623c9..b0cb870 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -824,9 +824,16 @@ attributes: Match Objects ------------- -Match objects always have a boolean value of :const:`True`. This lets you -use a simple if-statement to test whether a match was found. Match objects -support the following methods and attributes: +Match objects always have a boolean value of ``True``. +Since :meth:`~regex.match` and :meth:`~regex.search` return ``None`` +when there is no match, you can test whether there was a match with a simple +``if`` statement:: + + match = re.search(pattern, string) + if match: + process(match) + +Match objects support the following methods and attributes: .. method:: match.expand(template) |