Perl has some good and easy function to set the returned value to a variable
if($string =~ /<(\w+)>/){
$name = $1;
}
This is what I tried for python and it works, but is there any alternative way of doing this?
if re.match('\s*<\w+>.+', string):
var = re.findall('>(\w+)<', string)
Hope this is what you looking for:
string = "id: 10"
match = re.search("id: (\d+)", string)
if match:
id = match.group(1)
print id
Whatever you need, you have possibly everything in Python re doc.
You don't need to do the match followed by findall, findall will return an empty list when there's no match:
>>> string = 'sdafasdf asdfas '
>>> var = re.findall('>(\w+)<', string)
>>> var
[]
So, you can translate your Perl example like this:
try: name = re.findall('>(\w+)<', string)[0]
except IndexError: name = 'unknown'
I don't think you regex will match anything. They both contradict each other.
This is how you would do a match in Python:
import re
string = "string"
matches = re.match('(\w+)', string)
print matches.group()
.group(0)to the end of thevarline