Why is it different from the example on the tutorial?

[Rick Johnson]

On Sunday, July 6, 2014 8:38:41 AM UTC-5, rxj... at gmail.com wrote:
> When I get match result:
> py>pattern='abcd'
> py>prog = re.compile(pattern)
> py>string='abcd'
> py>result = prog.match(string)
> py>result
> <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x6ffffeda5e0> 
> py>result.group(0)
> 'abcd'
> 
> It looks like 'result' is different from a simple
> 'counter' variable. I do not yet find the definition of
> 'result' object. What do you call 'result' object? Where
> can I find it (what topic would be in a tutorial)? Thanks,

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