Python regular expressions return true/false

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Using Python regular expressions how can you get a True/False returned? All Python returns is:

<_sre.SRE_Match object at ...>
python regex
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Here is my method:

import re
# Compile
p = re.compile(r'hi')
# Match and print
print bool(p.match("abcdefghijkl"))
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You can use re.match() or re.search(). Python offers two different primitive operations based on regular expressions: re.match() checks for a match only at the beginning of the string, while re.search() checks for a match anywhere in the string (this is what Perl does by default). refer this

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