regular expression - matches

[Tim Chase]

abcd wrote:
> how can i determine if a given character sequence matches my regex,
> completely?
> 
> in java for example I can do,
> Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(input).matches()
> 
> this returns True/False whether or not input matches the regex
> completely.
> 
> is there a matches in python?

 >>> import re
 >>> 'match' in dir(re)
True
 >>> help(re.match)
Help on function match in module sre:

match(pattern, string, flags=0)
     Try to apply the pattern at the start of the string, returning
     a match object, or None if no match was found.


For more info, see

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html

-tkc