serach file for regexp, return if found?

[Yves Dorfsman]

notnorwegian at yahoo.se wrote:
> i want to search a document for a particular regexp and then store
> that regexp to a file.

> but search and match only returns matchobjects(what are those anyway?
> i dont get what to do with them, do they contain true/false,
> stringposition etc?)

> how do i do:
> for rows in file:
>     print regexp.find  ## or something equiavlent

Is this what you are trying to do:

for row in file('/etc/services'):
  if re.match('^ssh', row):
    print row


Yves.
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