import re

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string = "Python is fun"

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# check if 'Python' is at the beginning

match = re.search('\APython', string)

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if match:

  print("pattern found inside the string")

else:

  print("pattern not found")  

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# Output: pattern found inside the string

exp = "(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}"

ip = "blah blah 192.168.0.185 blah blah"

match = re.search(exp, ip)

print match.group()

>>> import re

>>> reg = re.compile("[a-z]+8?")

>>> str = "ccc8"

>>> print(reg.match(str).group()) #use group() to print the matches

ccc8

match = re.search(pattern, str)

if re.search(rf"\b(?=\w){TEXTO}\b(?!\w)", subject, re.IGNORECASE):

    ...do something

re.search(pattern, string, flags=0)

# pattern: The first argument is the regular expression pattern we want to search inside the target string.

# string: The second argument is the variable pointing to the target string (In which we want to look for occurrences of the pattern).

# flags: Finally, the third argument is optional and it refers to regex flags by default no flags are applied.