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#16304: clarify match objects docs. Initial patch by Jan Duzinkiewicz.

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Ezio Melotti 2012-11-04 06:59:22 +02:00
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@ -814,9 +814,16 @@ 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)