Question

What does the function re.match do?

(a) matches a pattern at the start of the string

(b) matches a pattern at any position in the string

(c) such a function does not exist

(d) none of the mentioned

I have been asked this question in class test.

The origin of the question is Regular Expressions in division Regular Expressions and Files of Python

Answer 1

The correct option is (a) matches a pattern at the start of the string

To explain I would say: It will look for the pattern at the beginning and return None if it isn’t found.