Python Programming with the Java™ Class Libraries: A Tutorial for Building Web and Enterprise Applications with Jython

Match Object Methods and Properties

The following sections describe the methods and properties of the match object.

group()

<match object>.group([name|num][,name|num]...)

The group() method gets matches of each group of the expression, or all matches if no group is specified. If a single argument is passed, the return value is a string containing the group specified. If no arguments are passed, the return value is a string containing the entire match. If a group is in part of a pattern that doesn't match, the return value is None. If it's in part of the pattern that matches multiple times, the last match is returned.

 >>> mo = search(r'(?P<first>t)(?P<last>est)',"test") >>> mo.group() 'test' >>> mo.group("first") 't' >>> mo.group("last") 'est' ...