The match() method returns 0 or more of the characters that match starting from the beginning of the string.

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Here is a list of commonly used methods:

- match()
- search()
- findall()
- finditer()

re Methods

https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html

The search method searches the whole input string looking for when the given regular expression matches.

The findall method returns a list of all substrings that match the regular expression.

The finditer method finds all matches to the given regular expression and returns them as an iterator.